Estate of Dice

Citations

• 180 Pa. 647
• 37 A. 117
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 981

Syllabus

<p>Decedent's estate — Husband and wife — Evidence.</p> <p>A wife claimed $4,300 as a debt from her husband’s estate. The evidence showed that the wife never had any estate of her own, except $2,300 which she had received from her father, and had handed over to her husband. There was evidence which tended to show that the husband had drawn promissory notes in favor of his wife for $4,300, but that he had not delivered them, and that they had been burnt accidentally about two years before his death. There was no evidence that the husband had agreed to pay interest on the money which he had received. Held, that an auditor’s finding, confirmed by the court below, that the wife was entitled to only $2,300 should be affirmed.</p>