Lloyd's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Cambria county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 126. Appeal of Harriet P. Lloyd, widow, and others, administrators of Thomas J. Lloyd, deceased, from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the funds in the hands of said administrators.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Cambria county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 126. Appeal of Harriet P. Lloyd, widow, and others, administrators of Thomas J. Lloyd, deceased, from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the funds in the hands of said administrators. Thomas J. Lloyd, the decedent, was a lumber merchant, and carried on this business for many years previous to his death, on the 6th of March 1878. For about six years previously he had D. H. Kinkead in his employment as clerk and superintendent, who, as such, had authority to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
If the contract made betweqn- Thomas J. Lloyd and D. H. Kinkead, the appellee, on or about the 24th of May 1876, was in *520its terms retrospective, that fact must have been established by some evidence not now exhibited to us. We have examined the testimony as it is found in the record before us with some care, and by it a condition of things about as follows appears : Kinkead was in the employment of Lloyd altogether about one year, commencing on the 15th of September 1875. On the 22d of May following, Kinkead, having for some reason become dissatisfied, abandoned that employment. Soon after…
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