Legal Opinion

Estate of Tasker

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 15, 1897No. Appeal, No. 76PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal, No. 76, Jan. T., 1897, by Stephen P. M. Tasker, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 325, overruling exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions -to adjudication.

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Appeal, No. 76, Jan. T., 1897, by Stephen P. M. Tasker, from decree of O. C. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 325, overruling exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions -to adjudication. Thomas T. Tasker died January 27,1892. At the audit of his executors’ account before Ashman, J., two claims for $5,000 each were presented, one by tbe clearing house committee, (consisting of George Philler, B. B. Comegys, J. H. Michener, G. M. Troutman, James V. Watson, H. C. Stroup and Jacob Naylor) on decedent’s promissory note for that amount, dated April 2, 1891, at four months, to the order of Stephen P. M.…

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Mr. Justice Green,

On the hearing before the auditing judge, Stephen P. M. Tasker, testified as follows: “I was a depositor many years in the Spring Garden Bank. Mr. Kennedy, the president, sent for me and told me they were about to form the bank into a, national bank and needed paper. He asked me if I could get two notes from my father for $5,000 each. My father agreed to it and sent two notes at $5,000 each, drawn February 2,1886, one at four months and one at five months. They were not to' be used at all. One of them (presented by Mr. Freedley) is a *124renewal of the original one. So…

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