Hammett's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1876, No. 28. This appeal was from the decree of the court made upon exceptions to the report of an auditor appointed to audit the account and make distribution of the balance in the hands of the executors of Barnabas Hammett, deceased. Barnabas Hammett died January 22d 1878, leaving a will, in which James H. Campbell, Daniel M. Eox and N. B. Browne were appointeddiis executors.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1876, No. 28. This appeal was from the decree of the court made upon exceptions to the report of an auditor appointed to audit the account and make distribution of the balance in the hands of the executors of Barnabas Hammett, deceased. Barnabas Hammett died January 22d 1878, leaving a will, in which James H. Campbell, Daniel M. Eox and N. B. Browne were appointeddiis executors. When the executors filed their first account it was referred to an auditor, Thomas Greenbank, Esq., who found the balance for distribution to be…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
Tlxe exclusive jurisdiction of the Orphans’ Court to ascertain the amount of the estates of decedents, and order their distribution among those entitled, creditors as well as legatees and distributees, is so fully settled that nothing but future legislation can alter the law. The sources of this jurisdiction, and its conclusiveness, will be found in a long line of well-considered decisions : Kittera’s Estate, 5 Harris 416 ; Whiteside v. Whiteside, 8 Id. 473 ; Bull’s Appeal, 12 Id. 286 ; Ashford v. Ewing, 1 Casey 213; Black v. Black, 10 Casey 354 ; Mussleman’s Appeal, 15 P. F. Smith 480;…
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