Pennsylvania State Reports Containing Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Volume 22) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855. Excerpt: ... Dent's Appeal--Adlum's Estate. resident devisees. He remarked that other distributions had taken place here, under which the distributees had taken; that Dent had already received a large portion of his dividend by a credit on the purchase of real estate purchased by him; and that he and C. Barber had agreed not to take out letters of administration in 1 Pennsylvania, and requested administration to be taken in this state. It was intimated that'the effect of this agreement would be to prevent the property from being received by either of the parties to the agreement, and amounted to an agreement that distribution be had in Pennsylvania. He sustained the exception and directed distribution amongst the distributees, viz., to J. A. Clay, administrator of the estate of Margaret Adlum, the widow, above $13,000; to Cornelius Baker, in right of his wife Margaret, above $8000; and to H. H. Dent, in right of his wife, above $3000. From such deoree appeal was taken by H. H. Dent. Afterwards, C. Barber having died, his wife Margaret, residing in the District of Columbia (a daughter of John Adlum), as executrix of his will, and also under grant of letters on his estate obtained in Pennsylvania, was a claimant. Dallas, for the appellant.--There were no charges or expenses in Pennsylvania, to which the fund was liable. There were no creditors, resident in Pennsylvania or elsewhere, nor any legatees or next of kin resident in this state claiming the fund or any part of it, but the legatees and next of kin claiming were resident in the district where testator resided, and where it was claimed that the fund be sent. It is for the protection and assistance of resident citizens only that Courts of Equity have assumed and exercised the power of distributing the personal asse...