Court Opinion

ID: 6274046
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 15:54:07.129494+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:00:00.123217
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
W. D. Porter, J.,
The auditing judge found as a fact that Margaretta E. Mount was next of kin of the decedent and awarded to her the balance of the estate after the payment of debts and expenses of administration. The testimony presented before the auditing judge related exclusively to the pedigrees of the various claimants. We have carefully considered that testimony and are convinced that there was an abundance of evidence to sustain the finding. Such a finding will not be disturbed except in cases of fraud, clear mistake or manifest lack of due consideration, when based upon evidence sufficient to sustain the verdict of a jury: Nuding Brewing Company’s Appeal, 1 Pa. Superior Ct. 107; Luce’s Estate, 3 Pa. Superior Ct. 289; McGonigal’s Estate, 4 Pa. Superior Ct. 408; Drinkhouse’s Estate, 151 Pa. 294; Strauss’s Estate, 168 Pa. 561. We would affirm this judgment if the record were here in proper shape for review.
This appeal is taken jointly by eleven individuals who claim to have been second cousins of the decedent, and her next of kin at the time of her death. They do not claim in a joint right, and are not all even children of the same parents, and for the reasons given in Samson’s Estate, post, p. 93, in which an opinion has this day been filed, they have no standing to maintain a joint appeal. _
The appeal is quashed.