Estate of McClain

Citations

• 180 Pa. 231
• 36 A. 743
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 910

Syllabus

<p>Judgment — Bes adjudicata — Orphans' court — Common pleas.</p> <p>Where a claim against the estate of a decedent has been put in judgment in the court of common pleas, payment of the claim cannot be resisted by the executors of the decedent at the audit of their account in the orphans’ court. A judgment may be corrected for mistake or impeached for fraud; but only in the court in which it was rendered, on a proper application, and not in a collateral proceeding.</p> <p>Judgment — Set-off—Bes adjudicata.</p> <p>After a claim has been put in judgment, set-off as against the claim so judicially determined is conclusively presumed to have been made, and the strife over it is at an end.</p>