Legal Opinion

Philadelphia Electric Company Case

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 21, 1945No. Appeals, 264, 272 and 265PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

MEr. Justice Jones,

These appeals grow out of proceedings instituted in the court below by the Attorney General in behalf of the Commonwealth under the Act of June 25, 1937, P. L. 2063, 27 P. S. §§434 et seq. As in Pennsylvania Power & Light Company Case, 352 Pa. 466, 43 A. 2d 114, the proceedings were designed to require the respondent companies to pay into the State Treasury without escheat certain moneys and property held by the respondents consisting of dividends or profits, debts and interest on debts, customers’ advances, tolls or deposits, stock or certificates of beneficial…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Security Savings Bank v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  2. United States v. KleinSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  3. Cunnius v. Reading School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  4. Schuylkill Trust Co. v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  5. Commonwealth v. Dollar Savings BankSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Hartmann v. Time, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1948
  2. Douglas Aircraft Co. v. CranstonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1962
  3. Priester v. MillemanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  4. Keeler v. PRA Receivables Management, LLC (In Re Keeler)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2009
  5. Commonwealth v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1960

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