Groff v. City Savings Fund & Trust Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 165, Oct. T., 1910, by Charles T. Waldo, executor of Sarah W. Haines, from order of C. P. Lancaster Co., Equity Docket, No. 4, p. 183, dismissing exceptions to report of auditors in ease of Annie H. Groff v. City Savings & Trust Company of Lancaster. Exceptions to report of W. T. Brown, William N. Appel and John A. Nauman, Esqs., auditors. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to auditors’ report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
This is an appeal from the decree of the court below distributing the funds in the hands of J. H. Rathfon, receiver of the City Saving Fund & Trust Company of Lancaster, an insolvent corporation. The appeal is by Charles T. Waldo, executor of the will of Sarah W. Haines, deceased, who asserts that the claim which he represents is entitled to preference in payment, as against the demands of the general creditors of the insolvent corporation. Waldo, as executor, had been required to give bond, the trust company had become his surety, and there had been delivered and…
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