136 Pa. 23 | Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County | 1890
Opinion,
While it is not technically accurate to saj^ that appellant is a bailee for the estate of the money she received from her mother, since deceased, we agree that, having repudiated the note in which she promised to repay it, she was bound, in equity and good conscience, to return it to her mother, or to her personal representative after her decease, and that it may therefore be regarded in equity as money of the estate in her possession. The' Orphans’ Court is practically a court of equity; and, when it appeared that appellant, who was there claiming a full distributive share of her mother’s estate, had virtually in her possession money which should have formed a
It is unnecessary for ns to further consider the subject. It has been so fully and ably discussed by the learned judge of the Orphans’ Court that, for reasons given in his opinion and the authorities cited in support of them, we are satisfied there is no error in the decree, or in the proceedings leading thereto.
Decree affirmed, and appeal dismissed, at the costs of appellant.