Assigned Estate of Mathews
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Fayette County
Nos. 248, 249, 250 January Term 1891, and 18 July Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 March Term 1887, C. P. On March 9, 1888, Campbell & Dick, unsecured creditors having a claim against the assigned estate of M. H. Mathews, doing buisness as M. H. Mathews & Co., caused a citation to issue to J. D. Armstrong, assignee.
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Nos. 248, 249, 250 January Term 1891, and 18 July Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 March Term 1887, C. P. On March 9, 1888, Campbell & Dick, unsecured creditors having a claim against the assigned estate of M. H. Mathews, doing buisness as M. H. Mathews & Co., caused a citation to issue to J. D. Armstrong, assignee. Thereupon the assignee, on April 28d, filed an account charging himself with Proceeds of personal property and collectible accounts, ...... $6,189.91 Rent received from real estate . . 151.42 Proceeds of merchandise purchased . . 2,336.82 $8,627.65 Credits were claimed and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice McCollum :
These are appeals from a decree upon an account filed under an assignment for the benefit of creditors. In the account the assignee claimed credits for moneys paid to the sheriff on executions against the assignor, and for moneys expended for clerk hire and other assistance in disposing of a stock of merchandise. To these credits Campbell & Dick, J. Ullman & Co., and Joseph Horne & Co. filed exceptions, on the ground that the expenditures in the conversion of the goods were unnecessary and excessive, and that the judgments which supported the executions were…
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