Wolfe's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
■ Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of McKean county: Of July Term 1884, No. 146. This was an appeal by J. D. Wolfe from a decree of said court dismissing exceptions to and confirming the report of an Auditor, appointed to make distribution of the funds in the hands of the administrator of Victor C. Wright, deceased.
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■ Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of McKean county: Of July Term 1884, No. 146. This was an appeal by J. D. Wolfe from a decree of said court dismissing exceptions to and confirming the report of an Auditor, appointed to make distribution of the funds in the hands of the administrator of Victor C. Wright, deceased. The facts, as found by the Auditor (John Forrest, Esq.), were substantially as follows: Victor C. Wright died intestate-'on September 2d, 1881; his administrator filed his account showing a balance, after payment of preferred debts, of $2,687.30. This account was confirmed and an…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
*129We gather from the Auditor’s report, that in February 1881, appellant sold and assigned to Victor C. Wright, appellee’s intestate, a mining lease, known, in business circles, as an “ oil lease,” together with machinery, fixtures, engines, tools &c., on the premises; and, for part of the purchase money received from Wright six promissory notes, aggregating over $4,500, secured by a leasehold mortgage of the mining lease, machinery, &c., vested in him by virtue of the assignment. In other words, Wolfe sold and transferred his interest in certain real estate and took from his vendee a mortgage…
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