Ziegler v. Grim
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Berks county. Jesse Ziegler and Catharine his wife, against David Grim and David K. Grim, guardians of the children of John Siegfried.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Berks county. Jesse Ziegler and Catharine his wife, against David Grim and David K. Grim, guardians of the children of John Siegfried. Amicable action, upon the following agreement: “It is hereby agreed between the parties aforesaid, that the above stated amicable action be entered in the court of common pleas of Berks county, as of January term 1837, to determine how much of balance of 14,132 dollars 41 cents, awarded by the auditors upon the account of John H. Siegfried and Jesse Ziegler, executors of the last will and testament of John Siegfried, late of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The controversy between the parties in this case, has arisen out of the last will of John Siegfried the elder; and if the construction given to it by the court below, in then: charge to the jury be correct, all the errors assigned must fall to the ground: for it is clear, that it would have been wholly inconsistent with their construction, to have admitted any part of the evidence mentioned in the bills of exception to the opinion of the court in rejecting it, which form the ground of all the errors assigned, except the last, that embraces…
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