Hook v. McCune

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Hook v. McCune, 184 Pa. 292 (Pa. 1898)
39 A. 72; 1898 Pa. LEXIS 892
Cueiam, Dean, McCollum, Mitchell, Pell, Queen, Steebett, Williams

Hook v. McCune

Opinion of the Court

Pee Cueiam,

The question presented by the facts set forth in the case stated ” is whether the orphans’ court sale, made more than five years after the death of the intestate, for the payment of his debts, vested in the purchaser at said sale a good and marketable title to the land in question. The learned president of the common pleas held that it did, and judgment was accordingly entered'in favor of the plaintiffs. For reasons given by him, this was so clearly right that further discussion of the question is unnecessary.

The judgment is therefore affirmed on his opinion.

Reference

Full Case Name
Jacob G. Hook and George Hook v. Eliza L. McCune
Cited By
3 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Decedents' estates—Lien of debts—Sale of real estate—Institution of suit. Under the' Act of February 24, 1884, P. L. 77, section 24, the orphans’ court has jurisdiction to decree the sale of decedent’s real estate for payment of a debt, more than five years after the decedent’s death, where a bill in equity to enforce the debt had been instituted within the five years, although the decree therein was not entered until after the expiration of the five years.