Executors of Shoenberger v. Hackman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Abraham S. Hackman against John G. Miles and Michael Berry, executors of Peter Shoenberger, deceased, to recover the sum of $5000 with interest, on an alleged contract with said deceased. The case was this: — George Shoenberger was owner of part of Huntingdon Eurnace. He devised it with other property to his two heirs, Dr. Peter Shoenberger and Mrs. Barbara Hackman.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Abraham S. Hackman against John G. Miles and Michael Berry, executors of Peter Shoenberger, deceased, to recover the sum of $5000 with interest, on an alleged contract with said deceased. The case was this: — George Shoenberger was owner of part of Huntingdon Eurnace. He devised it with other property to his two heirs, Dr. Peter Shoenberger and Mrs. Barbara Hackman. Dr. Shoenberger, in 1882, bargained with Mrs. Hackman’s husband (by articles) to purchase his interest for $13,000. A deed was prepared in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
— Everything material in this case was passed upon in Zook v. Shoenberger’s Executors, 10 Casey 24. The contract was the same as in the present case, and the only substantial difference consists in one of the parties being different. The present is a suit by another of the heirs of Mrs. Hackman, against the executors of Dr. Shoenberger, on a promise to pay an additional sum of money for a release of an interest in certain property in Pluntingdon county. The merits of the case seem to have been fully investigated: each party giving such…
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