Jones's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from and certiorari to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county: Of January Term 1883, No. 115. Appeal of John Jones from a decree of said court confirming the final report of an auditor, making distribution of the balance in the hands of a receiver, appointed by the court in an equitable proceeding between certain partners, and ordering payment in accordance.therewith.
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Appeal from and certiorari to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county: Of January Term 1883, No. 115. Appeal of John Jones from a decree of said court confirming the final report of an auditor, making distribution of the balance in the hands of a receiver, appointed by the court in an equitable proceeding between certain partners, and ordering payment in accordance.therewith. Before the Auditor (Alfred B. Reid, Esq.) the following facts appeared: Robert Preston was the owner of a certain woollen mill in Chester county and of land attached thereto, which was encumbered with liens. On…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The subject of complaint in the first and second specifications is that the amount realized by the receiver from the sale of corn and the growing wheat crop was erroneously awarded to the appellees on their respective claims for wages under the Act of April 9th 1872, to the exclusion of appellant’s claim.
The corn was grown on the land bound by appellant’s judgments ; but, having been garnered in the fall before the receiver was appointed, it came into his possession as personal property of the insolvent firm, in whose service the wages claimants were employed. The wheat, having been sown the…
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