Miller's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Common Pleas of Cumberland county: Of May Term 1876, No. 114. This was an appeal by Bair and Shenk from a decree of the court below confirming the report of the auditor appointed to audit the account of the assignee for the benefit of creditors of Amos Miller. The facts of the case appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
Amos Miller made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors on the 24th of October 1873. On distribution by an auditor of the balance in the hands of the assignee, Bair and Shenk, the appellants, presented a claim founded on a note for $3000 drawn by John Miller and endorsed by Amos Miller, which had become due and been protested for non-payment on the 1st of April 1873. It appeared that after making the note, and before the assignment of Amos Miller was executed, an assignment for the benefit of his. *114creditors had been made by John Miller. It appeared also that in a distribution of…
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