Legal Opinion
Summers Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 20, 1967No. Appeal, 29PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Jones,
Petitioner, J. I. Simon (Simon), administrator of the estate of James M. Summers (Summers), appeals from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County, No. 132- of 1963 refusing and dismissing his petition which prayed that an order be entered directing William Patton (Patton) and/or Hufstader-Oadillac, Inc. (Hufstader) to return one 1963 Cadillac coupe to the estate of Summers or, in the event of its resale, to account for its selling price. The orphans’ court found both possession and actual ownership of the Cadillac to be vested in Patton.
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