Corbe v. Burkert
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 98, Oct. T., 1909, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., July Term, 1905, No. 10, on bill in equity in case of Joseph Corbe v. E. P. Burkert, Citizens’ National Bank of Ash-land, Charles A. Weidman, Richard Price, Anthony Dougherty and Schuylkill County. Bill in equity to compel the surrender of bonds. The bill averred that on May 1,1905, the complainant was the owner of five Schuylkill county bonds of $100 each.
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Appeal, No. 98, Oct. T., 1909, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., July Term, 1905, No. 10, on bill in equity in case of Joseph Corbe v. E. P. Burkert, Citizens’ National Bank of Ash-land, Charles A. Weidman, Richard Price, Anthony Dougherty and Schuylkill County. Bill in equity to compel the surrender of bonds. The bill averred that on May 1,1905, the complainant was the owner of five Schuylkill county bonds of $100 each. That on that day he delivered the same to C. 0. Burkert, who is now a fugitive from justice, to have them exchanged for one Pottsville bond of $500 at four…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
The county of Schuylkill issued a series of bonds of the denomination of |100 each. These bonds were not made payable to bearer in the usual form of municipal bonds, but each was made payable to a particular individual named therein “or his assigns,” pursuant doubtless to subscriptions made before the bonds were actually issued. Five of these bonds, after having been held by some intervening owners, came into the possession of Joseph Corbe, the plaintiff. Neither the names nor the number of the intervening owners appear in the record. The bonds were not accompanied with any…
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