Appeal of Grim
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Lehigh county: Of January Term, 1883, No. 303. Appeal of A.-S. Grim and Bella D., his wife, S. A. Feldman and Anna M., his wife, and Bartley Murtaugh and Rachel P., his wife, from a decree of the said court, upon the first account of Joseph Schnurman, executor of Henry Schnurman, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Lehigh county: Of January Term, 1883, No. 303. Appeal of A.-S. Grim and Bella D., his wife, S. A. Feldman and Anna M., his wife, and Bartley Murtaugh and Rachel P., his wife, from a decree of the said court, upon the first account of Joseph Schnurman, executor of Henry Schnurman, deceased. From the report of the auditor appointed to audit the said account (C. M. Runk, Esq.), which was filed March 12, 1880, the following facts appeared: Henry Schnurman died in March, 1875, seised and possessed of considerable real and personal property. Joseph Schnurman, his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
At the decease of Henry Schnurman, the partnership stock of Schnurman, Newhard & Co. was valued and appraised at the sum of $16,394.30. No fraud is alleged, nor is it asserted that the sum named does not fairly represent its full value. Neither the executor nor the heirs had any right to take the decedent's place in the partnership, nor to compel the continuance of the business. The stock on hand was rightfully in the possession of the surviving partners, the legal ownership of that stock, for the purposes of liquidation, was in them, and they had the right, acting honestly and with…
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