Brennan's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Schuylkill county. In the matter of James Brennan’s Estate: Of January Term 1870. The decedent died intestate October 27th 1865, leaving a widow, Catharine Brennan (since intermarried with John Divinney), and four collateral next of kin, but no children.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Schuylkill county. In the matter of James Brennan’s Estate: Of January Term 1870. The decedent died intestate October 27th 1865, leaving a widow, Catharine Brennan (since intermarried with John Divinney), and four collateral next of kin, but no children. Administration of his estate was granted to William Yerner, who, on the 9th of April 1867, filed an account showing in his hands a balance of $4737.63. The heirs filed exceptions to the account; that the administrator should have charged himself with $500, the value of a leasehold of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, February 7th 1870, by
Sharswood, J.
These are appeals by the administrator and the widow of James Brennan (Rush), deceased, respectively, from the final decree of the Orphans’ Court of Schuylkill county, confirming the report of an auditor appointed to restate and settle the account of the administrator, and to distribute the balance found to be in his hands. The principal assignment of error is, *19that the court below confirmed the report in violation of their own written rules. It has been said, indeed, more than once, that, courts are the best exponents…
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