Shaffer's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 7, Oct. T., 1910, by Hugh Ferguson, from decree of O. C. Allegheny Co., April T., 1909, No. 172, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in Estate of Harvey Lyman Shaffer, deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
Hugh Ferguson presented a claim against the estate of Harvey Lyman Shaffer, deceased. It was disallowed on two grounds: 1. Insufficiency of proof to sustain the claim. 2. The bar of the statute of limitations. The matter is now before this court on the appeal of the claimant.
In the' year 1889 or 1890 Ferguson had been in Tennessee looking up some ore properties. He returned to Pitts-burg and made an arrangement with Shaffer to go to Tennessee. The details of this arrangement are not shown, but it appears that Shaffer was to secure a lease of a mineral…
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