Legal Opinion

Hockenberry's Petition

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Westmoreland County

Decided August 11, 1944No. 177Published

1Opinion of the Court

Laird, J.,

— Esther Hockenberry has presented a petition to this court praying for a decree conferring on her all the rights and privileges of a feme sole trader and granting her a certificate that *276she may be authorized to act, have the power, and transact business as a feme sole trader, as provided in the acts of assembly in such cases made and provided.

In her petition Mrs. Hockenberry does not allege the act under which she expects the order of court to be made, although it is probably the Act of May 28, 1915, P. L. 639, as amended by the Act of May 11, 1927, P. L. 971, 48 PS §44. We feel…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Thornton v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  2. Knauer's PetitionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  3. Black v. TrickerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
  4. Elsey v. McDanielSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
  5. Harper's PetitionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926

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