Appeal of Wheatland

Citations

• 125 Pa. 38
• 17 A. 251
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 690

Syllabus

<p>1. Where the real estate of a lunatic is sold under the provisions of § 22. act of June 13,1836, P. L. 597, and the lunatic dies pending the distribution by an auditor of the fund arising therefrom, the proceeding is not stayed or the cause of distribution altered by the lunatic’s death.</p> <p>2. The committee is but the receiver of the court as to the proceeds of the real estate sold, and the fund when it comes into his hands is a trust fund applicable in the first instance to the specific purpose for which it was raised.</p>