Shindel's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe decree of tbe Orphans’ Court of Northumberland county in the matter of the estate of Henry MasSer, deceased, to October Term 1867. Letters testamentary were granted on the estate of Henry Masser, deceased, on the 25th day of July 1853, to Peter B. Masser and others, the executors named in the will. Peter B. Masser filed a partial account, November 29th 1856, which-was confirmed absolutely, April 8th 1857, showing, a balance of |1923.96 due the estate.
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Appeal from tbe decree of tbe Orphans’ Court of Northumberland county in the matter of the estate of Henry MasSer, deceased, to October Term 1867. Letters testamentary were granted on the estate of Henry Masser, deceased, on the 25th day of July 1853, to Peter B. Masser and others, the executors named in the will. Peter B. Masser filed a partial account, November 29th 1856, which-was confirmed absolutely, April 8th 1857, showing, a balance of |1923.96 due the estate. He filed a second partial account, March-23d 1861, which was confirmed absolutely November 6th of the same year, showing a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, C. J.
Rhoads’ Appeal, 3 Wright 186, decided no more than that what' are known as partial accounts of administrators and executors, when confirmed absolutely, are final in regard to all that they contain. We took some pains to prove that this was the law on the subject in that case. Previously, the practice had been to admit exceptions, when a final account was filed, to it, or to any precedent partial account. The argument on that case brought us clearly to the conclusion that the law was otherwise, and so we held and affirmed what had been…
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