24 Pa. 143 | Pa. | 1854
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
The executors of John Sutton, deceased, filed several accounts, the last one showing a balance due them of $277.31, a sum not so large as the aggregate of the commissions allowed them at different times. To pay this balance a sale of land was ordered, made, and confirmed. To distribute the proceeds the Court appointed an auditor, who appropriated $277.31 to the payment of the executors. But the Court set the report aside, and decreed all the money to the heirs on the ground that Sutton had died more than seven years before, and his debts were therefore no longer a lien on his real estate.
The law limiting the lien of a decedent’s debts does not apply
The decree of the Orphans’ Court is reversed, and it is now ordered and decreed by'this Court]'that distribution be made agreeably to the report of the auditor.