Brown's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Brown's Estate, 210 Pa. 499 (Pa. 1904)
60 A. 149
Brown, Dean, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Thompson
Brown's Estate
Opinion of the Court
The evidence is clear and the court has found it to be credible, that the decedent received the money from the claimant either as a loan or for purpose of investment for her. He was therefore charged with the burden of showing either payment or an accounting. His sudden death left the matter in obscurity but the burden of proof was still upon his representatives and they have failed to meet it.
Decree affirmed,
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- Decedent’s estates—Claim for money had and received—Evidence—Burden of proof. Where it is shown that a decedent received money from a claimant either as a loan or for purpose of investment for claimant, the burden is upon his representatives to show either payment or an accounting.