In re Estate of Lafferty
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 469, Jan T., 1896, by Patrick J. Corcoran, from decree of O. C. Piula. Co., Oct. T., 1896, No. 587, passing on exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. From the record it appeared that Charles Lafferty died October 10, 1885, possessed of considerable property, both real and personal.
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Appeal, No. 469, Jan T., 1896, by Patrick J. Corcoran, from decree of O. C. Piula. Co., Oct. T., 1896, No. 587, passing on exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. From the record it appeared that Charles Lafferty died October 10, 1885, possessed of considerable property, both real and personal. By his will he appointed four persons to act as executors and trustees, and provided that “ whenever my executors and trustees shall from any cause be reduced to two, they shall petition the orphans’ court to appoint another so as to keep up the number of three executors and trustees. .…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
A careful consideration of this record with special reference to the several questions involved has failed to convince us *519that there is any substantial error either in the findings of fact, or in the conclusions drawn therefrom by the learned court below. As to some of the former—especially the question, whether Rose E. Lafferty was a member of the firm of P. Lafferty & Co.—the testimony was conflicting and contradictory, but we cannot say that the finding, as to either, was not in accordance with the weight of the evidence as it correctly appeared to the learned judge who had the…
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