Thomson's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, Nos. 400 and 454, Jan. T.,, 1892, by Lavinia F. Thomson and George B. Roberts et al., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1881, No. 310, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Audit of account of Lavinia F. Thomson et al., trustees of J. Edgar Thomson, deceased.
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Appeal, Nos. 400 and 454, Jan. T.,, 1892, by Lavinia F. Thomson and George B. Roberts et al., from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1881, No. 310, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Audit of account of Lavinia F. Thomson et al., trustees of J. Edgar Thomson, deceased. The auditing judge, Hanna, P. J., found in effect that J. Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died in May, 1874, leaving a large estate to trustees, the income of which was awarded to Mrs. Thomson, his widow, by the decree of this court (92 Pa. 407), and the corpus of the estate was directed to be held…
1Opinion of the Court
Lavinia F. Thomson’s Appeal.
Opinion by
Mb,. Justice Williams,
Trade consists so largely in the purchase and sale, or ex*337change, of raw materials or manufactured products that the word naturally suggests personal chattels as the commodity dealt in. But real estate may become an article of trade to be bought and sold like any other commodity. When this is done by an individual in his own name his purchases have all the ordinary incidents connected with the ownership of land. When it is done by a copartnership the artificial person owns the land as it would own the stock of goods bought for a firm,…
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