Pryor v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 82 Jan. T., 1895, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Monroe Co., Sept. T., 1892, do. 5, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to recover the value of securities converted by defendants’ intestate. Before Albright, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial plaintiff testified as follows: “ I am a niece of Mrs. Morton, deceased. I was in possession of a box which James Morgan got after her death, a tin box about a foot long.
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Appeal, No. 82 Jan. T., 1895, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Monroe Co., Sept. T., 1892, do. 5, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to recover the value of securities converted by defendants’ intestate. Before Albright, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial plaintiff testified as follows: “ I am a niece of Mrs. Morton, deceased. I was in possession of a box which James Morgan got after her death, a tin box about a foot long. There was in it a deed for her property, seven shares of Easton bank stock, four shares of Stroudsburg bank stock, six shares of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Emma Pryor, the plaintiff, claimed to recover from defendants the value of certain county bonds, worth $2,000 ; shares of bank stock, $870; school district bonds, $600; money and jewelry, $285 ; the value of the whole being about $3,800.
All of the property belonged, in her lifetime, to Mercy Morgan, an aged single woman, resident in Stroudsburg, and who died on the 10th of January, 1892. The plaintiff, a niece of Miss Morgan, alleged her aunt had made a gift of this property to her about three days before her death; that defendants’ intestate, James B. Morgan, as…
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