Kemper v. Fort
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 348, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., March T., 1903, No. 3,736, on verdict for defendant in case of Mary Kemper v. Thomas R. Fort, Jr. Trespass for libel.
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Appeal, No. 348, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., March T., 1903, No. 3,736, on verdict for defendant in case of Mary Kemper v. Thomas R. Fort, Jr. Trespass for libel. At the trial it appeared that one Austin W. Bennett, as guardian for Jesse C. Claggett, filed a petition in the orphans’ court as of January Term, 1896, No. 473, to review the accounts of William S. Price and Thomas R. Fort, Jr., executors and trustees under the will of Thomas W. Price, deceased. It was claimed by Jesse O. Claggett that as a child of Mary S. Claggett, daughter of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The libelous matter of which the appellant complains appears in two answers in the orphans’ court of Philadelphia county to petitions filed by Austin W. Bennett, guardian of Jesse C. Claggett, for a review of the accounts of Thomas R. Fort, Jr., the appellee, and William S. Price, executors and trustees under the will of Thomas W. Price, deceased, and for an order to set aside the sale of certain real estate made by them. Thomas W. Price, the father of the appellant, died in 1895. At that time she was the wife of Jesse C. Claggett, and by her father’s will the sum…
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