Vandergrift & Forman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 205. This was an appeal from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the fund arising from the sale of the interest of W. W. Perkins in certain oil leases, oil wells, fixtures, machinery, &c., connected therewith, under two writs of fieri facias issued by Yandergrift & Forman.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 205. This was an appeal from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the fund arising from the sale of the interest of W. W. Perkins in certain oil leases, oil wells, fixtures, machinery, &c., connected therewith, under two writs of fieri facias issued by Yandergrift & Forman. The facts, in the main controversy before the auditor, are fully set forth in the opinion of this court. The only other question passed upon by this court was as to the right of D.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
Yandergrift & Forman, execution creditors of William Wallace Perkins, on the 13th and 15th of October 1873, procured levies to be made on the defendant’s property, which was sold by the sheriff on the 2-lst day of the same month. Except a lot of household goods in Fairview borough, which produced at the sale $108.50, the property consisted of undivided interests in five leaseholds in the township of Fairview, and two leaseholds in the township of Con*128corcl, with one or more producing oil wells and the usual engines, engine-houses, machinery and fixtures upon each. The aggregate sum of $9951.50…
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