Legal Opinion

Hart's Assigned Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 20, 1905No. Appeal, No. 184Published

Appeal, No. 184, Jan. T., 1904, by Philadelphia Trust Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1903, No. 4147, dismissing petition for removal of trustee in Assigned Estate of Charles Henry Hart. Petition for removal of trustee. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in dismissing the petition.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Dean,

In 1897 Charles Henry Hart was insolvent.

This trust company, the appellant, had brought suit against him for borrowed money, and had obtained judgment March 11, 1898, for $72,858.19. While the suit of the trust company was pending, Hart, the insolvent, made two deeds of assignment to Walter C. Reding. By one he conveyed to Reding his undivided interest which he held under his father’s will- to the family residence on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, also his interest in the personal estate of his father; by the other he conveyed to Reding his interest in certain real…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Baker's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1853
  2. Johnson's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1883
  3. HandySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
  4. Griffin v. RogersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861
  5. Hart's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1902

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