Farrell's Assigned Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 171, Oct. T., 1900, by D. S. Walton & Co., from order of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1896, No. 165, dismissing exceptions to referee’s report. Exceptions to report of Henry D. Massey, Esq., auditor. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was the order of the court, dismissing exceptions to report of referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
W. D. Porter, J.,
The Nescoehague Manufacturing Company assigned certain book accounts, standing in their own names, to the Hampshire Paper Company as security for a certain debt, and subsequently made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors. The debt due the Hampshire Paper Company which the book accounts were assigned to secure, has been paid in full, and that company has collected on said accounts the sum of $2,920.68 in excess of said claim. A contest arose between the general creditors and certain consignors of goods to be sold upon commission, as to who were entitled…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. KingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
- Lebanon Trust & Safe Deposit Bank's Assigned EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Freiberg v. StoddardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Estate of Jamison & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Thompson's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1853
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- Lifter v. Earle Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1919