In re Estate of Hoffman

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 4, 1898

In re Estate of Hoffman, 185 Pa. 315 (Pa. 1898)

39 A. 954; 1898 Pa. LEXIS 711

Fell, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

Opinion of the Court

Per. Curiam,

We are not convinced that the special facts and circumstances of this case did not justify the court below in departing from the ordinary rule, and in disposing of it as shown by the record. A careful consideration of the evidence has satisfied us that the appellant has not been unjustly prejudiced by the action of the court below, and his conduct, as found by the learned president of that court, was not such as should induce us, on any technical ground, to relieve him from the consequences of a decree of which he at least has no just reason to complain.

Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.

Reference

Full Case Name: In the Matter of the Estate of John S. Hoffman, Appeal of George D. Hoffman
Cited By: 4 cases
Status: Published
Syllabus: Decedents' estates — Executors and administrators — Collection of rents by administrator. Where all the parties interested in a decedent's estate agreed that the administrator should collect the rents and manage the realty, and the administrator, by his conduct in the management of the estate both personal and real, and by including in his account in the orphans’ court items relating -to the realty, induced the widow and heirs to desist from resorting to any other tribunal for the adjustment of the accounts until the statute of limitations had intervened to bar a number of items rotating to the realty, the administrator is7 estopped from denying the jurisdiction of the orphans’ court over the whole account.