Shaffer v. Hoke
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 206, Oct. T., 1922, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Franklin Co., In Equity, Equity Docket, vol. 4, page 220, in tbe case between Grover Shaffer, plaintiff, and John W. Hoke, executor of the will of Samuel Stinger, deceased, and Chambersburg Trust Company, defendants.
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Appeal, No. 206, Oct. T., 1922, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Franklin Co., In Equity, Equity Docket, vol. 4, page 220, in tbe case between Grover Shaffer, plaintiff, and John W. Hoke, executor of the will of Samuel Stinger, deceased, and Chambersburg Trust Company, defendants. Bill for an injunction restraining one of the defendants from collecting, and the other from paying, a certificate of deposit or any moneys due thereon, and also praying for a decree adjudging the plaintiff to be the legal owner of the certificate. Before Gillan, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the…
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Trexler, J.,
Samuel Stinger was a bachelor eighty-nine years of age and for the last' few months of his life lived with his nephew, Grover Shaffer, the appellee. During this period while ill, he opened a bureau drawer in his bedroom and took therefrom a package of papers, and withdrew from the package a red envelope having on its back a picture of the Chambersburg Trust Company building at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, together with the words, “The Chambersburg Trust Co., Chambersburg, Pa.,” printed in large letters, which envelope he, handed to the plaintiff, saying, “Here, this is…
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