Estate of Failor

Citations

• 10 Pa. Super. 253
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 267

Syllabus

<p>Administrators — Register's discretion in appointment.</p> <p>A register of wills is bound to exercise a sound discretion when he selects outside of those to whom the statute gives the right of administration, and in the absence of all evidence against his appointee, a sound discretion is to be presumed.</p> <p>Decedent's estate — Administration—Grant of letters — Insolvency or hostile interest disqualifies.</p> <p>Where there is personal ineompetency in individuals belonging to the class preferred for administrators the register exercises a sound discretion when he refuses to grant letters to a member of such preferred class because of his insolvency and alleged indebtedness to the estate in question. An insolvent or party litigant is not a proper appointee.</p>