Welscher's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from Common Pleas No. 4 of Philadelphia County. John B. Welscher executed a deed of his estate to Joseph II. Gasslein and Theodore H. Lutkenhans, in trust for his daughter, Caroline Welscher.
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Appeal from Common Pleas No. 4 of Philadelphia County. John B. Welscher executed a deed of his estate to Joseph II. Gasslein and Theodore H. Lutkenhans, in trust for his daughter, Caroline Welscher. The assets consisted of $4,500, United States bonds, $500 in cash, and a note of Lutkenhaus’ for $1,800. Gasslein took possession of all the assets, and subsequently Lutkenhaus filed a petition and caused the assets to be deposited in the Fidelity Trust Company for safe keeping, in the names of the joint trustees. Gasslein then renounced the trust. John B. Welscher died soon after making the trust…
1Opinion of the Court
The Supreme Court reversed the decree of the Common. Pleas on March 14,1881, in the following opinion, per
Green, J.:
In this case the counsel for the appellee has not furnished, us with any paper book. The counsel for the appellant has-published a history of the case, but no argument. The very brief ¡report of the master, while it expresses in figures his-final action, contains a very slight explanation of one of his-rulings, and none at all of the rest. He refers to a report made by himself in another matter, as containing the reasons-for his decision upon one subject, but that report is no…
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- Porter's AppealsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1858
- McKee v. SanfordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1855
- Totten's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861
3Cited by1 opinion
- Millman's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1932