Snyder v. McGill

Citations

• 265 Pa. 122
• 108 A. 410
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 511

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Witness—Responsive answer.</p> <p>1. When an answer is fully responsive to a question, it is not error to refuse to allow the witness to answer further.</p> <p>Contract — Rendering of services — Acceptance.</p> <p>2. If one party renders services under a proposed contract and the other accepts them, the contract is binding without a formal, verbal, or written acceptance thereof.</p> <p>Executors and administrators — Grant of letters — Collateral attach — Will—Presumption—Burden of proof.</p> <p>3. The grant of letters of administration by the register of wills is a judicial act and cannot be attacked or avoided in a collateral proceeding.</p> <p>4. It is assumed that before a register of wills grants general letters of administration on a decedent’s estate, he has satisfied himself that decedent left no valid will, and hence a presumption arises that there was none.</p> <p>5. Ordinarily he who affirms that a decedent left a valid will, has the burden of proof of showing it.</p> <p>Appeals — Judgment—Reversal—Harmless error.</p> <p>6. A judgment will not be reversed for harmless error.</p> <p>Appeals — Assignments of error — Exception.</p> <p>7. An assignment of error which has no exception to support it, will be disregarded.</p>