Provident Trust Co. v. Rankin

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

The administratrix of John Strubing Schwacke’s estate appeals from the decree of the court below directing her to account to the Provident Trust Company, executor of the estate of Thomas M. Kellogg, on the basis that her decedent was a partner of the dissolved firm of Rankin & Kellogg.

In articles of agreement entered into by John H. Rankin, Thomas M. Kellogg and John Strubing Schwacke, it is stated that the three persons named “have agreed to become copartners for the purpose of succeeding to the practice and business of the firm of Rankin, Kellogg and Crane,…