Keystone Coal Co.'s Trustee
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 43, Jan. T., 1909, by Victoria Schmitt, executrix, from decree of C. P. Luzerne Co., Feb. T., 1908, No. 58, appointing trustee in the Matter of the Appointment.of a Trustee of the Mortgage of the Keystone Coal Company. Petition for the appointment of a trustee. Before Lynch, P. J., and Fuller, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The Keystone Coal Company, on April 15, 1891, executed a. mortgage to Thomas Ford, trustee, to secure the issue of 124 bonds of $1,000 each. He died November 25, 1901, and on December 5, 1907, a petition, based on the Act of June 14, 1836, P. L. 628, and addressed to the court of common pleas of Luzerne' county was presented to one of the judges at chambers, who granted a rule to show cause why the prayer should not be granted, returnable to the next argument court. The appellant promptly raised the question of the court’s jurisdiction, averring in her answer to…
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