Brew v. Cochran

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

The plaintiff’s intestate, George W.. Jackson, was a member of the copartnership of Jackson, Hastings & Co., organized August 31, 1897, to engage in the general banking business at Bellefonte, Pa. Two months later, on October 22, he died; and Henry C. McCormick and Daniel H. Hastings two other members have also-died since then, the one in May, 1902, and the other in January, 1903, leaving J. Henry Cochran as the sole survivor. As recited in the co-partnership agreement, Jackson had a six-fifteenths interest in the business, Hastings had five-fifteenths,…