Hamill's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 206. Appeal of Ann Hamill from the decree of the court, dismissing her bill for the review of the decree of said court, upon the adjudication of her account as administratrix of William Ilamill, de- , ceased. William Hamill died February 22d 1876, intestate, leaving a widow, the accountant, and three children by a former wife.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 206. Appeal of Ann Hamill from the decree of the court, dismissing her bill for the review of the decree of said court, upon the adjudication of her account as administratrix of William Ilamill, de- , ceased. William Hamill died February 22d 1876, intestate, leaving a widow, the accountant, and three children by a former wife. The widow took out letters of administration and on the 28th of May 1877, she filed her account, which was audited June 25th 1877 by O’Brien, J., of the Orphans’ Court, before whom the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
In the testimony produced before the auditing judge some essential facts in support of the appellant’s claim on the fund for distri'bution were definitely made out. When William Hamill was married in July 1862, he had no property of any kind. Immediately after his marriage, he entered, “with the help of his wife,” as found ■by the adjudication, upon a business requiring some capital, which he pm*sued until he died, and which, beside providing for the support of his family, has produced an estate amounting to about $3000. There was no pretence on the part of the appellees that he had any…
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