Donaldson's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Donaldson's Estate, 158 Pa. 292 (Pa. 1893)
27 A. 959; 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1581
Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Thompson
Donaldson's Estate
Opinion of the Court
The learned auditor’s findings of fact were not only approved by the court, but they appear to have been fully warranted by the evidence.
For reasons given in the opinion of the court below, the decree of February 8, 1893, was rightly made. Neither of the specifications of error is sustained.
Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed with costs to be paid by appellant.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Donaldson's Estate. Potter's Appeal
- Cited By
- 11 cases
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- Auditor's findings of fact — Review. An auditor’s findings of fact approved by the court below will not be reversed by the Supreme Court except for clear error. Partition — Charge upon land — Sheriff's sale — Notice. Where notice is given at a sheriff’s sale of an interest of an heir in real estate, that the sale is subject to the equity of the payment of the heir’s debts to the decedent’s estate, the equity of payment runs with the land, and in subsequent partition proceedings the amount of the debts of the heir may be charged upon the purpart allotted to the sheriff’s vendee.