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· 11/8/1897

Commonwealth ex rel. Stewart v. Stewart

Citations

  • 183 Pa. 269
  • 38 A. 597
  • 1897 Pa. LEXIS 752

Syllabus

<p>J/unacy — Accounting by committee — Laches.</p> <p>Where the administrator of a deceased committee oí a lunatic died eleven years after his appointment without any demand ever having been made upon him to file an account, and no demand is made upon his legal representatives after his death, an administrator d. b. n. of the deceased committee, appointed fourteen years after the death of the lunatic, and who is unable to. obtain any knowledge of the affairs of said committee, will not be required to account for the lunatic’s estate.</p>

Judges: Collum, Dean, Fell, Green, Mitchell, Stelirett, Williams

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