Bailey's Estate

Citations

• 241 Pa. 230
• 88 A. 428
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 766

Syllabus

<p>Practice, O. C. — Bill of review — Commonwealth—Laches.</p> <p>1. While the statute of limitations does not run against the Commonwealth, laches may be imputed to her as well as to an individual.</p> <p>2. The auditor general filed a petition to open, review and set aside the confirmation of an auditor’s report, awarding distribution of a fund in the hands of an administrator, on the ground that there was error in allowing the administrator credit for the amount he paid the informant of an escheat; the petition was not filed until more than nine years after the confirmation of the adjudication, and the persons who had knowledge of the facts were dead. Held, the petition was properly dismissed.</p>