Girard Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Chambers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certificate from the Supreme Court at Nisi Prius. This was an attachment execution, issued April 13th 1860, at the suit of John Chambers against Silas E. Weir, in which the Girard Life Insurance, Annuity, and Trust Company of Philadelphia was summoned as garnishees. Interrogatories in the usual form were filed and answered by the garnishees, who also pleaded nulla bona, under wdiich the cause was tried ..between the plaintiff and the garnishees.
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Certificate from the Supreme Court at Nisi Prius. This was an attachment execution, issued April 13th 1860, at the suit of John Chambers against Silas E. Weir, in which the Girard Life Insurance, Annuity, and Trust Company of Philadelphia was summoned as garnishees. Interrogatories in the usual form were filed and answered by the garnishees, who also pleaded nulla bona, under wdiich the cause was tried ..between the plaintiff and the garnishees. The material facts of the case were these: — On the 22d day of May 1857, John Chambers obtained a judgment in the Supreme Court against Silas E. Weir…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, February 25th 1864, by
Read, J.
Anderson v. Dawson, 15 Ves. Jr. 532, wras the case of a settlement by a feme sole, in contemplation of marriage, of part of her fortune, in trust to pay the dividends to herself for her separate use for life, and after her death, for her intended husband, and after the death of the survivor, to transfer the capital to her appointment by will, and in case she should die without appointment, and he should be then dead, in trust for her next-of kin, their executors and administrators, according to the Statute of Distributions.…
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