Diffenbacher's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 22, March T., 1906, by American Tract Society, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., sustaining exceptions to report of auditor in estate of Calvin O. Diffenbacher, deceased. Exceptions to report of Géorge M. Hays, Esq., auditor.
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Appeal, No. 22, March T., 1906, by American Tract Society, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., sustaining exceptions to report of auditor in estate of Calvin O. Diffenbacher, deceased. Exceptions to report of Géorge M. Hays, Esq., auditor. Sadder,- P. J., filed the following opinion: Charles W. Minnich purchased an engine in the year 1903 from the J. J. Case Company for the sum of $1,125. A judgment note was given for the same by the said parties, which matured September 1, 1903, and which, with interest to that date, amounted to $1,135.13. This sum was paid to the First National Bank of…
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Opinion by
Hendekson, J.,
After a careful examination of the evidence we are of the opinion that the court reached a correct conclusion in regard to the evidence offered in relation to the claim of the appellee. Taking the whole testimony of Charles Minnich into consideration his evidence is to the effect that his interest in the engine was turned over to his father in April, 1904, for a board bill due or to become due. The note on which the appellee made his claim was given September 21, 1903, and the decedent was one of the makers. His solvency does not seem to have been doubted and there was…
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