Joseph P. Murphy Co.'s Assigned Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 134, Jan. T., 1905, by Frederick Vietor & Achelis from order of O. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1898, No. 408, dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report in Assigned Estate of Joseph P. Murpby Company. Exceptions to report of Ira J. Williams, Esq., auditor. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
In a well considered report, confirmed by the court below, the auditor who made distribution of the balance in the hands of the assignee of the Joseph P. Murphy Company, an insolvent corporation, found that the relationship existing between it and the appellants at the date of the assignment was not that of debtor and creditor, but of principal and factor. They were accordingly awarded a dividend only on $20,054.67 — the balance found to be due them after they had received upon sales made subsequently to the assignment the proceeds of the goods consigned to them.…
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