Patterson's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 126, Oct. T., 1911, by the. Board of Church Extension of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1899, No. 39, dismissing petition in Estate of Robert Patterson, deceased. Petition to compel payment by a trustee appointed to make sale in partition of a decedent’s real estate. Before Hawkins, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was decree dismissing exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
On July 20, 1898, Fannie B. Risher executed to W. W. Whitesell, at that time a reputable member of the Allegheny county bar, a mortgage for $1,800, on an undivided fourth interest in certain real estate devised to her by Robert Patterson, deceased. The mortgage was duly recorded, and, on August 20, 1898, Whitesell assigned it upon the margin of the record to the board of church extension of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. At the time of the execution of the mortgage, as well as when it was assigned to the appellant, there were pending in the court…
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