Case ID: pa-super_28/html/0106-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Orlady, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McArdle’s Estate.
    
      Appeals — Review—Findings of fact — Orphans’ court.
    
    The appellate court will not reverse a decree of the orphans’ court based upon a finding of fact of the auditing judge confirmed by the court in banc, where there is sufficient testimony to sustain the finding, and the record shows no manifest error.
    Argued Dec. 13, 1904.
    Appeal, No. 99, Oct. T., 1904, by Ruth McCarron, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1901, No. 418, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Anne McArdle, Deceased.
    Before Rice, P. J., Beaver, Orlady, Smith, Porter, Morrison and Henderson, JJ.
    April 17, 1904 :
    Affirmed.
    Exceptions to adjudication.
    
      JSrror assigned was the decree of the court.
    
      Joseph M. Smith, with him John A. Ward, for appellant.
    
      M. Hampton Todd, for appellees.
   Opinion by

Orlady, J.,

The auditing judge had before him the books of account and the witnesses who were called to explain the complicated relations between the accountant and the funds before the court. In rejecting the claim of Michael McCarron there was not a finding against his claim as such, but only that there was not sufficient evidence to fix this claim as one which the accountant was authorized to pay with the money in her hands, as executrix of Ruth McCarron. This finding was sustained by the court in banc and a review of all the testimony has satisfied us that it should not be changed.

The decree is affirmed.