Lewis v. Scheppers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FROM THE DECREE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COURTY. No. 136 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 373 June Term 1883, C. P. No. 3. To tbe term and number in the court below as above stated, a scire facias sur mortgage was issued by Edwin M. Lewis, Frederick Collins, Alexander Whilldin and George Morrison Coates, trustees for Joseph H. Dunn, Charles B. Dunn and Robert M. Dunn and others, against Emile Scheppers, Edouard Scheppers and Francis…
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FROM THE DECREE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COURTY. No. 136 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 373 June Term 1883, C. P. No. 3. To tbe term and number in the court below as above stated, a scire facias sur mortgage was issued by Edwin M. Lewis, Frederick Collins, Alexander Whilldin and George Morrison Coates, trustees for Joseph H. Dunn, Charles B. Dunn and Robert M. Dunn and others, against Emile Scheppers, Edouard Scheppers and Francis Scheppers. The mortgage was given by the defendants to secure certain bonds amounting to $450,000 made by them to various…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
If the findings of fact by the auditor in this ease are correct, his conclusions follow logically, The learned judge below has reversed him in a brief opinion without showing, or attempting to show, that his findings of fact are erroneous. We do not feel at liberty to dispose of them in this summary manner.
The main contest arises over two notes of $5,000 each made by the appellants, and which are held by Dunn Brothers, bankers and appellees, and which they claim to hold as collateral for the general indebtedness to them of the firm of Benjamin Bullock’s Sons.…
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