Bickford's Estate

Citations

• 16 Pa. Super. 572
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 112

Syllabus

<p>Bill of review — Orphans' court practice — Executors and administrators.</p> <p>The account of an administrator or executor duly audited and confirmed by the orphans’ court can only be reviewed as a matter of right, (1) for error of law apparent on the face of the record; (2) for new matter which has arisen since the decree; and (3) as a matter of grace, for the admission of proof (discovered after decree), which could not have been used when the decree was made.</p> <p>An administratrix’s account which has been duly audited and confirmed by the orphans’ court will not be reviewed where the administratrix was guilty of negligence in not ascertaining during a long period of time running both before and after the filing and adjudication of her account, that certain moneys which she had intrusted to her attorney for deposit, and which she had charged herself in her account as confirmed, had not been deposited to her credit in bank pursuant to her contract with her surety, and in failing promptly to compel the attorney to deposit the amount or repay the fund.</p>