Case Name: MATTER OF JOHN McCOWIN'S ESTATE
Court: Delaware Orphans' Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1771-02
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. LXII
Docket Number: 
Parties: MATTER OF JOHN McCOWIN’S ESTATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: LXII–LXII

Head Matter:
MATTER OF JOHN McCOWIN’S ESTATE.
Orphans’ Court.
February, 1771.
Hilles’ Notebook, 3.

Opinion:
The Court,
after mature consideration, determined that a physician's account for medicines etc., to a- person in his last illness should in future be held and deemed a debt to be paid next to the funeral expenses, and prior to all others. And that , from the necessity of the thing, it being supposed that, without this assurance, poor persons might often be left to languish, and perhaps perish for want of physical aid; and the law, taking no particular notice of such accounts, seemed to leave them much to the discretion of the court.