Ike's Estate

Citations

• 236 Pa. 429
• 84 A. 786
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 769

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Promissory notes — Issue to determine validity of notes held by administrator.</p> <p>1. Where at the audit of an administrator’s account he presents notes to his own order made by the decedent, the validity of which is denied by other parties in interest, and an issue demanded, the grant of the issue is not of right but is a matter within the discretion of the Court.</p> <p>Auditors — Findings of fact — Promissory notes — Evidence.</p> <p>2. An auditor’s finding of fact based upon sufficient evidence and affirmed by the Orphans’ Court that certain promissory notes were valid and just claims against the estate of a decedent, will not be reversed by the appellate court in the absence of manifest error.</p>