Bitler's Estate

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 84
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 21

Syllabus

<p>Promissory notes — Principal and surety — Release of surety — Payment of interest.</p> <p>A surety on a promissory note is not released from liability by the mere payment of interest by the principal, where it does not appear that the interest was paid in advance, or that the note was extended, or in any way varied in its terms.</p> <p>Decedents’ estates — Claim for services — Findings of fact.</p> <p>A finding by the orphans’ court against a claim for nursing, will not be reversed by the appellate court where the finding is based on sufficient evidence and no manifest error is made to appear.</p> <p>Appeals — Joint appeals — Decedents’ estates.</p> <p>A husband and wife are not entitled to a joint appeal from a decree of the orphans’ court, where it appears that the wife appealed as a distributee, and the husband as a disappointed claimant, and that the matters of complaint iyere entirely separate and distinct.</p>