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In re Account of Commonwealth Trust Co.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 2, 1915No. 1; Appeal, No. 212PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal, No. 212, Oct. T., 1914, by Kathleen T. Harper, from the decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1913, No. 140, in equity, dismissing exceptions to report of auditor in re account of Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Trustee under Deed of Orlando M. Harper and Kathleen T. Harper, his wife. Account of Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, trustee. Exceptions to report of distribution of J. Houston Johnston, Esq., auditor.

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Appeal, No. 212, Oct. T., 1914, by Kathleen T. Harper, from the decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1913, No. 140, in equity, dismissing exceptions to report of auditor in re account of Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Trustee under Deed of Orlando M. Harper and Kathleen T. Harper, his wife. Account of Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, trustee. Exceptions to report of distribution of J. Houston Johnston, Esq., auditor. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court dismissed the exceptions. Kathleen T. Harper appealed. Error assigned, among others, was in…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Potter,

This is an appeal from the confirmation of the report of an auditor, making distribution of funds in the hands of the accountant as trustee. From the history of the case as given by counsel for appellant we take the recital of the facts. On December 1, 1906, Orlando M. Harper executed and delivered to the Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh a deed of trust, in which his wife, Kathleen T. Harper, joined. The subject matter of the trust was an undivided onedhird interest in a certain lot of ground, having erected thereon an eight-story building, situated at the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Campbell v. Foster Home Ass'nSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  2. Hoover v. EplerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1866

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. CrouseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  2. Beck v. BeiterSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  3. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Reedy, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Luzerne County1964
  4. Union Joint Stock Land Bank of Detroit v. ByersCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1938
  5. Brown's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1938

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