Compton's Estate

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 605
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 129

Syllabus

<p>Orphans’ court — Findings of fact — Conclusiveness of.</p> <p>A finding by the orphans’ court on competent evidence that the signature of a decedent to a contract is genuine, will not be disturbed in the absence of manifest error.</p> <p>Contract — Support of father — Parent and child.</p> <p>An agreement between two sons that one of them will take their aged father into his family, and that the other will pay his share of the expenses of support and maintenance of the father, is a valid contract, although there may be other children who might under the poor laws be compelled to contribute to their father’s support, and although the amount to be paid was not fixed at any definite sum.</p>