Rutty's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county : Of January Term 1877, No. 84. This was an appeal from a decree confirming an auditor’s report in the settlement of the account of E. T. Fox, committee of Hester Taylor, a lunatic.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county : Of January Term 1877, No. 84. This was an appeal from a decree confirming an auditor’s report in the settlement of the account of E. T. Fox, committee of Hester Taylor, a lunatic. The case was this :— George T. Granger gave to his mother, Hester Taylor, a lunatic, his bond in $2600, with warrant of attorney, as follows :— “Whereas, the above-named Hester Taylor has this day, and heretofore given, sold and delivered over to the above-bounden George T. Granger, money and obligations, amounting in all to the sum of about…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This was an appeal from the decree of the court below making distribution of a fund in the hands of E. T. Fox, committee of Hester Taylor, a lunatic. The committee, after the death of the lunatic, filed his account in the Court of Common Pleas, in which he charges himself with the fund as the property of Hester Taylor. The auditor and the court below treated the fund as the property of George T. Granger, and after the payment of the expenses of the audit, and Mrs. Rutty’s bill for sixty-three weeks board of the lunatic, awarded the residue to the lien creditors of Granger. This was error. The…
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