Parsons's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Erie county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 239. Appeal from a decree of the court below removing Annie M. Parsons from the position of executrix of the will of her deceased husband, James W. Parsons, under the provisions of the Act of May 1st 1861. The petition of the Keystone Bank, the Erie Lime Company and the Dime Savings Company, filed June 10th 1875, set forth that Parsons died in January 1873, leaving a will under which…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Erie county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 239. Appeal from a decree of the court below removing Annie M. Parsons from the position of executrix of the will of her deceased husband, James W. Parsons, under the provisions of the Act of May 1st 1861. The petition of the Keystone Bank, the Erie Lime Company and the Dime Savings Company, filed June 10th 1875, set forth that Parsons died in January 1873, leaving a will under which letters testamentary were granted to his wife; that he was indebted to the amount of over $40,000; that he owned a large malt…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
By the provision of the Revised Code of March 29th 1832, Pamph. L. 196, the mode of proceeding in the case of an executor wasting or mismanaging the estate or property under his charge is by a citation, and upon the return of such citation the court may require such security as they may think reasonable, and upon his neglect or refusal to give such security to vacate the letters testa? mentary and award new letters in such form as the case may require. The Act of May 1st 1861, Pamph. L. 680, provides a more summary proceeding to be used at the discretion of the court in place of that…
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