Chilcoat's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county: Of January Term 1882, No. 131. This was an appeal by B. E. Chilcoat from a decree of said court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the balance in the hands of said B. E. Chilcoat as assignee of James S. Chilcoat. On January 31st 1876, James S. Chilcoat executed an assignment for the benefit of creditors to B. F. Chilcoat.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county: Of January Term 1882, No. 131. This was an appeal by B. E. Chilcoat from a decree of said court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the balance in the hands of said B. E. Chilcoat as assignee of James S. Chilcoat. On January 31st 1876, James S. Chilcoat executed an assignment for the benefit of creditors to B. F. Chilcoat. By the deed, which was duly recorded, the assignor conveyed all his estate, real and personal, excepting and reserving to himself three hundred dollars’ worth of property, “ allowed him by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
The amount awarded to the assignor ($266.50) under his claim for $300 exemption was made up in part of the value of five shares of Building & Loan Association stock, and in part of other moneys of the assigned estate in the hands of the assignee. The Building & Loan Association stock was owned by the assignor at the time of the assignment, and passed to the assignee by force of the assignment. Payments were made both by the assignor and assignee to keep it alive after the assignment, but those payments were refunded, and constitute no part of the present fund. The whole of the fund is…
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