Estate of Cessna
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 225, Jan. T., 1898, by John C. Kunkel, from decree of O. C. Bedford Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditor. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The court, Bailey, P. J., of the 20th judicial district, specially presiding, filed the following opinion: At the time of his death, Hon. John Cessna was the owner of 133 bonds of the Bedford Coal and Iron Company, of the par value of $1,000 each.
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Appeal, No. 225, Jan. T., 1898, by John C. Kunkel, from decree of O. C. Bedford Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditor. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The court, Bailey, P. J., of the 20th judicial district, specially presiding, filed the following opinion: At the time of his death, Hon. John Cessna was the owner of 133 bonds of the Bedford Coal and Iron Company, of the par value of $1,000 each. One hundred of these bonds were pledged by decedent to John C. Kunkel as collateral security for a note of $35,000. In his written acknowledgment of the receipt of these bonds Kunkel agreed…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
As to appellee’s motion to quash this appeal for violation of our rules relating to assignments of error, it is only necessary to repeat, in substance, what has so often been said in Landis v. Evans, 113 Pa. 332, and many other cases, that assignments of error are an essential part of the pleadings in this Court, and, as such, they should be so complete in themselves as not to require reference to other parts of the record presented for our consideration. When the cause is disposed of by us and the record is remitted to the court below, all that usually remains of record here are…
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