Scott v. Reed
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 137, Oct. T., 1892, by defendants, J. M. K. Reed and Francis Cunningham, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1890, No. 387, on verdict for plaintiff, Sarah Jane Scott. Assumpsit for value of certain promissory notes. At the trial, before McIlvaine, P. J., it appeared that the notes in controversy had been included in the inventory of the estate of David Perrine, deceased, but plaintiff claimed that they had been given to her by decedent.
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Appeal, No. 137, Oct. T., 1892, by defendants, J. M. K. Reed and Francis Cunningham, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1890, No. 387, on verdict for plaintiff, Sarah Jane Scott. Assumpsit for value of certain promissory notes. At the trial, before McIlvaine, P. J., it appeared that the notes in controversy had been included in the inventory of the estate of David Perrine, deceased, but plaintiff claimed that they had been given to her by decedent. The notes were eleven in number, and were as follows: Note of Alex. Smith, dated Sept. 26, 1881, for $140.55 ; note of J. F. Scott,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Heydrick,
The plaintiff seeks by this action to recover the value of certain promissory notes, which she claims were her property, but which the defendants say came into their hands as executors of the last will and testament of one David Perrine, deceased, and were by them collected and treated as assets of the estate of their testator. In her statement she avers that David Perrine was in his lifetime the payee, owner and possessor of the notes in question, and, at a time shown by her evidence to have been about four months before his death, made a gift thereof to her,…
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