Otterson v. Gallagher
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 158. Attachment execution, in which Anthony J. Gallagher was plaintiff, Samuel S. Norcross, defendant, and James Otterson, Jr., Esq., and Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, executors of E. P. Middleton, deceased, were garnishees.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 158. Attachment execution, in which Anthony J. Gallagher was plaintiff, Samuel S. Norcross, defendant, and James Otterson, Jr., Esq., and Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, executors of E. P. Middleton, deceased, were garnishees. Edward P. Middleton, by his will, bequeathed to his sister, Mrs. Ilamtah Norcross, the interest of $10,000, to be paid to her during her lifetime by his executors, and at her death the principal was to be divided among her children'who survived her. Mrs. Norcross died April 4th 1877,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This record presents but a single question. The plaintiffs in error were the garnishees below in an attachment sur judgment, in which A. J. Gallagher, the defendant in error, was plaintiff, and one Samuel S. Norcross defendant. The subject of the attachment was a legacy in the hands of the garnishees, as executors of the last will and testament of Edward P. Middleton, deceased. Upon the trial of the attachment the garnishees offered in evidence the record of the Orphans’ Court, showing the settlement of their accounts as executors, and the adjudications by that court of the question of the…
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