Legal Opinion

In re Hoffmann

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 22, 1917No. Appeal, No. 349PublishedCited by 20 opinions

Appeal, No. 349, Jan. T., 1916, by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from judgment of C. P. Erie Co., May T., 1906, No. 74, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report In re Frank Hoffmann, a Weakmindéd Person. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.

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Appeal, No. 349, Jan. T., 1916, by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from judgment of C. P. Erie Co., May T., 1906, No. 74, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report In re Frank Hoffmann, a Weakmindéd Person. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The lower court awarded the balance in the hands of the guardian to the poor district of Erie County, The Commonwealth appealed. among others, were the order of the court and in dismissing exceptions to the report of the auditor.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

The Commonwealth appeals from a decree of the Com- ' mon Pleas, dismissing exceptions to the report of an auditor refusing to allow its claim against the fund in the hands of the guardian of a weak-minded person.

Upon petition to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County, Frank Hoffmann was adjudged a weak-minded person, and C. D. Higby, Esq., appointed guardian, and, on April 30, 1906, Hoffman was entered on the books of the poor district of Erie County as a pauper, and committed to the State hospital for the insane at Warren, as an indigent patient, and has since…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Arnold's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Boles's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1934
  2. Waits' EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
  3. Walters' CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  4. Reiver's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  5. State Ex Rel. MacEy v. JohnsonIdaho Supreme Court · 1931

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