Gallagher's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county: Of October Term 1886, No. 220. This was an appeal of Elizabeth K. Gallagher, Maggie M. Gallagher, Bella C. Gallagher, and James H. Gallagher, (byr his guardian, Maggie M. Gallagher), widow and heirs of Thomas F. Gallagher deceased, from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas, of Westmoreland county, confirming the report of the Auditor in the distribution of the fund in the hands of the assignee of Geo.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county: Of October Term 1886, No. 220. This was an appeal of Elizabeth K. Gallagher, Maggie M. Gallagher, Bella C. Gallagher, and James H. Gallagher, (byr his guardian, Maggie M. Gallagher), widow and heirs of Thomas F. Gallagher deceased, from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas, of Westmoreland county, confirming the report of the Auditor in the distribution of the fund in the hands of the assignee of Geo. Gallagher. In the spring of 1847, Thomas F. Gallagher and George Gallagher formed a co-partnership for carrying on a general…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This was an appeal from the decree of the court below distributing the assigned estate of George Gallagher. The deed of assignment appears to have conveyed not only the individual estate of George Gallagher but also “ all the goods, chattels, effects, book accounts, notes and property of every kind, real, personal and mixed, of the partnership heretofore existing between the said George Gallagher and Thomas F. Gallagher, deceased, of which said partnership the said George Gallagher is the surviving partner.”
The assignor had a valuable real estate which it was conceded was his individual…
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