Case ID: pa-super_62/html/0467-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Trexler, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Boyle’s Estate.
    Practice, Orphans’ Gourt — Findings by auditing judge — Review.
    A finding by an auditing judge based on sufficient evidence, that an assignment of a legacy was in fact fraudulent, will not, when confirmed by the Orphans’ Court in banc, be reviewed by the appellate court, where there is no clear error.
    Argued Oct. 21, 1916.
    Appeal, No. 57, Oct. T., 1915, by Frank Martin, Assignee, from decree of O. 0. Philadelphia Co., July T., 1913, No. 355, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Margaret Boyle, deceased.
    Before Bice, P. J., Orlady, Head, Porter, Henderson, Kephart and Trexler, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    Exceptions to adjudication.
    
      Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
    Wto. B. S. Ferguson, with him John Gilroy, for appellant.
    
      Henry J. Scott, for appellee.
    April 17,1916:
   Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The findings of an auditing judge, confirmed by the Orphans’ Court in banc, in the absence of clear error are conclusive: Strauss’s Est., 168 Pa. 561; Coulston’s Est., 161 Pa. 151; Moritz’s Est, 239 Pa. 375; Mayhew’s Est., 155 Pa. 94. The auditing judge, in the case we are considering, found that the assignments by virtue of which the appellant claimed the legacies of Margaret Jeandell and Hugh Boyle in the estate of Margaret Boyle, were fraudulent as to the Kensington Credit Company to whom the legatees were indebted prior to the making of the assignments.

There was sufficient testimony to warrant the conclusion reached by the auditing’judge.

The decree of the Orphans’ Court is affirmed.