Shafer's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Northampton county. Of January Term, 1884, No. 46. This was an appeal by Benjamin Shafer and Joseph B. Shafer, administrators of Joseph Shafer, deceased, from a decree of said court sustaining exceptions to the report of an auditor, appointed to audit the account of said administrators and make distribution of the fund in their hands. • By deed, dated February 9, 1866, Joseph Shafer, the deceased, being then seised of a tract of land, on…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Northampton county. Of January Term, 1884, No. 46. This was an appeal by Benjamin Shafer and Joseph B. Shafer, administrators of Joseph Shafer, deceased, from a decree of said court sustaining exceptions to the report of an auditor, appointed to audit the account of said administrators and make distribution of the fund in their hands. • By deed, dated February 9, 1866, Joseph Shafer, the deceased, being then seised of a tract of land, on which there was a slate quarry, conveyed an undivided four-fifths interest therein to Thomas Beck, Nathan Hall and Stephen…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
From the year 1864 to 1867, Thomas Beck, Joseph Shaffer, Nathan Hall and Stephen Shaffer were associated as partners, doing business under the name and style of Beck, Shaffer, Hall & Co., and were engaged in the construction of several sections of the lower division of the railroad of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. On the 9th February, 1866, Joseph Shaffer, who had title to a certain slate quarry, by deed conveyed four undivided fifth parts thereof to his said co-partners, as tenants in common. The quarry was subsequently sold, the proceeds passing into the hands of Joseph Shaffer or…
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