Ike's Estate

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

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: May 13, 1912
• Docket: Appeal, No. 195
• Status: Published

Opinion

Per Curiam,

The assignments of error relate to the refusal of the court to award an issue to determine the validity of notes on which the administrator claimed to recover from the decedent’s estate and to the confirmation of the report of the auditor allowing the claim. The right to an issue, under the facts shown, was considered by this court on an appeal by the same appellant, in a proceeding that grew out of the application by the administrator for an order to sell the real estate of the decedent for the payment of debts. In dismissing the appeal it was said, “The issue asked for was not of right but depended upon the discretion of the court under the facts as developed: Kates’s Estate, 148 Pa. 471. . There was not only no abuse of this discretion but in our judgment, upon a review of the whole record, a proper exercise of it.” See Ike’s Estate, 200 Pa. 202. At the hearing before the auditor, the only testimony presented was that which, on the former application, had been adjudged insufficient by the Orphans’ Court and by this court.

Whether the notes were valid obligations of the decedent was purely a question of fact, and the finding of the auditor, affirmed by the court, will not be set aside.

The order is affirmed at the cost of the appellant.