Stevens's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 351, Jan. T., 1894, by a creditor, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditors. Exceptions to auditors’ report.
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Appeal, No. 351, Jan. T., 1894, by a creditor, from decree of O. C. Lancaster Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditors. Exceptions to auditors’ report. The auditors, Simon P. Eby, William Leaman and J. Hay Brown, Esqrs., after reviewing the facts of the giving of a plain promissory note by decedent to his nephew Alanson J. Stevens, July 12, 1858, on demand, which was the subject of the present claim, continued: “ After the death of Alanson J. Stevens, his brother, Thaddeus Stevens, had possession of the said promissory note, on which claim is now made, up to the time of his death,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Williams,
This appeal presents but one question. The facts upon which it is raised are free from difficulty. Alanson Stevens was the son of Morrill Stevens of Vermont, who was a brother of the late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania. After the death of his brother in Vermont, Thaddeus Stevens brought his two sons to Pennsylvania and treated them with the same kindness and liberality that he would have been expected to show them if they had been his own sons. Their interests in their father’s estate had remained in the hands of their guardian in *222their native state until…
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