In re Estate of Buck
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 226, Jan. T., 1897, by Louis J. L. Buck, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1897, No. 246, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. The auditing judge, Penrose, filed the following adjudication. The decedent died, as represented in the petition annexed, December 26, 1895, intestate, unmarried and without issue, father or mother, leaving two brothers, Louis J. L. Buck, (the accountant) and William T. Buck.
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Appeal, No. 226, Jan. T., 1897, by Louis J. L. Buck, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1897, No. 246, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. The auditing judge, Penrose, filed the following adjudication. The decedent died, as represented in the petition annexed, December 26, 1895, intestate, unmarried and without issue, father or mother, leaving two brothers, Louis J. L. Buck, (the accountant) and William T. Buck. He was a saloonkeeper, doing business at Otis and Moyer streets, not far from Cramp’s shipyard, where he had been since 1886. He rented the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Fell,
The finding of the learned auditing judge that the unexpired term of the lease of the saloon and the good will of the business with the opportunity of procuring a transfer of the license were worth from $2,000 to $2,500, and that the accountant, without making an effort to procure a purchaser, appropriated them to himself, fully sustains the surcharge made. In Grimm’s *60Appeal,-181 Pa. 233, relied on by the appellant, the executor sold the stock and fixtures to the widow of the decedent and she secured a new lease, and on her petition the license was transferred to…
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