McNaughton's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of January Term 1882, No. 279. Appeal of William McNaughton and others, creditors of the firm of Kingsland & Reynolds, from a decree of said court, distributing the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the personal property of said firm.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of January Term 1882, No. 279. Appeal of William McNaughton and others, creditors of the firm of Kingsland & Reynolds, from a decree of said court, distributing the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the personal property of said firm. The Auditor appointed to distribute the fund found the facts to be as follows: In the winter of 1880-1881 J. S. Reynolds went to Titusville, Crawford county, where he proposed to carry on the grocery business. He asked A. P. Bennett, an acquaintance, to advance him money for this object. Bennett agreed to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The fund in controversy is the proceeds of partnership property sold on executions against the firm of Kingsland & Reynolds. It is conceded that the execution creditors of the firm are entitled to participate in the distribution in the order of their respective writs; but it is contended that the claim of the Second National Bank of Titusville, for which it obtained judgment and issued the first execution, never was a debt of the firm. In this the appellants are sustained by the report of the learned auditor, who, upon evidence of the most satisfactory character, found that the claim of the…
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