Sackett v. Twining
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Common Pleas of Bucles county. This was a proceeding by Abraham Sackett, administrator of the estate of Joseph L. Sackett, deceased, v. Abbott C. Twining. It wras a scire facias guare exeeutio non on a judgment in favor of Abraham Sackett, administrator of Joseph L. Sackett, deceased, against Abbott C. Twining, to recover the sum of $367.32, due upon the judgment.
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Error to tbe Common Pleas of Bucles county. This was a proceeding by Abraham Sackett, administrator of the estate of Joseph L. Sackett, deceased, v. Abbott C. Twining. It wras a scire facias guare exeeutio non on a judgment in favor of Abraham Sackett, administrator of Joseph L. Sackett, deceased, against Abbott C. Twining, to recover the sum of $367.32, due upon the judgment. Abraham Sackett, as administrator of Joseph L. Sackett, deceased, in pursuance of an order of the Orphans’ Court in proceedings in partition, on the 28th of December, 1848 sold to Abbott C. Twining a tract of land…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Coulter, J.
The sale in this case was made by order of the Orphans’ Court, the heirs and legal representatives declining to take the land at the appraisement. It was therefore a judicial sale, made by order of a Court having jurisdiction over the subject-matter, and over the administrator who made the sale.
The sale was by virtue of a decree of the Court, after hearing all parts interested, and was approved and-confirmed by them, at which time, that is, after the return of sale by the administrator and before confirmation, the purchaser, the heirs, and…
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