Bryson v. Wood
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 136, Jan. T., 1897, by Rockport Granite Company et al., from decree of C. P. No. 3, Pbila. Co., June T., 1893, No. 797, dismissing exceptions to master’s report. Petition for dismissal of trustee. Exceptions to master’s report. Before Finletter, P. J., and Gordon, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to master’s report.
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Appeal, No. 136, Jan. T., 1897, by Rockport Granite Company et al., from decree of C. P. No. 3, Pbila. Co., June T., 1893, No. 797, dismissing exceptions to master’s report. Petition for dismissal of trustee. Exceptions to master’s report. Before Finletter, P. J., and Gordon, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to master’s report. Where the lower court has not considered and passed upon the findings of fact and conclusions of law of an auditor or a master the Supreme Court will, under its general powers and under the Act of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Dean,
Robert Wood, for some years carried on a stone and marblé business in Philadelphia; as early as February, 1892, he seems to have been embarrassed by debts of a large amount owing to a number of creditors who had furnished him granite and marble.- To one of these appellants, the Rockport Granite Company, to whom he was indebted in the sum of $13,500, he made at that time a written statement showing assets over $45,000 ; he continued to carry on business, however, up to July 12, 1893, when he confessed a judgment to William P. Bryson, in the sum of $32,211.72, as…
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