Case ID: serg-rawl_4/html/0248-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Duncan J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Kohr et ux. against Fedderhaff and another executors of Eisenhauer.
    
      Friday, May 29.
    In Error.
    in an action for r distributive share of a ^ecedent^estiement of the acMunfín Orphans’ Court is not conclusive.
    ERROR to the Common Pleas of Lebanon county.
    The action was brought for the plaintiff's distributive share of the estate of the testator. The Court charged the t^le settlement of the estate in the Orphans’ Court was conclusive, and not open to investigation.
    After a very short argument by Godwin, for the plaintiffs in error, and Weidman, for the defendants in error,
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Duncan J.

The only evidence appearing on the record was, the administration account settled in the Orphans’ Court; and upon this the Court charged the jury, that it was not open to investigation. This would preclude the defendant from shewing errors on the face of the account, and would preclude the jury from investigating those errors. We cannot help perceiving, that the evidence is not all on the record, and therefore, we proposed to the counsel for the defendants in error, to place it there by consent. This not being done, we must decide upon the record as it is. We are of opinion, that the charge of the Court was erroneous. The judgment, therefore, should be reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded.

Judgment reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded. 
      
       This point appears to have received the decision of this Court as early as the year 1786, in the case of Marriott et ux. v. Davey et al. executors, 1 Dall. 164. [Reporters.