Logan's Assigned Estate

Citations

• 213 Pa. 218
• 62 A. 843
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 451

Syllabus

<p>Practice, C. P. — Rules of court — Departure from rule — Discretion.</p> <p>Where a matter is within the discretion of the court and the substance of a-rüle of-court is observed, a departure by the court from the form of the rule is immaterial.</p> <p>Auditors — Auditor’s findings of fact — Decedents’ estates — Husband and wife —Gift.</p> <p>A finding by an auditor that the proceeds of a life insurance policy on the life of a husband claimed as a gift by the wife was in fact the property of the husband when tmch finding is based upon competent evidence, and confirmed by the court below, will not be reversed by the Supreme Court in the absence of manifest error.</p>