Persch v. Quiggle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
.Certificate from Nisi Prius. This was a bill in equity by James W. Quiggle and Cordelia his wife, filed October 25th 1864, against John P. Persch and Frederick Steeb, partners, under the firm of Persch & Steeb, Samuel Hepburn, Joseph N. Peirsol, cashier, the Consolidation Bank and the West Branch and Susquehanna Canal Company.
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.Certificate from Nisi Prius. This was a bill in equity by James W. Quiggle and Cordelia his wife, filed October 25th 1864, against John P. Persch and Frederick Steeb, partners, under the firm of Persch & Steeb, Samuel Hepburn, Joseph N. Peirsol, cashier, the Consolidation Bank and the West Branch and Susquehanna Canal Company. The bill alleged, that in 1859 Mrs. Quiggle owned 100 shares of the stock of the West Branch and Susquehanna Canal Company, which, together with a blank power of attorney executed by her, she left for safe keeping with Samuel Hepburn, as she was about going to Europe,…
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The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
Among the facts of this case there are some which are undisputed. They were found by the master to be established facts, and no exception has been taken to this part of his report. Many of them are also admitted in the answer of the appellant. They are these. In the year 1859, Mrs. Quiggle, the wife of James W. Quiggle, was the owner in her own right of one hundred shares of the capital stock of the West Branch and Susquehanna Canal Company. On the 6th of June of that year, Mr. and Mrs. Quiggle being about to go abroad, he left with Samuel…
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