Appeal of Criswell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Union county: Of July Term 1882, No. 28. Appeal of James Criswell et al. from the decree of said court upon exceptions to the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the funds in the hands of the assignee for the benefit of creditors of the Lewisburg Building Association.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Union county: Of July Term 1882, No. 28. Appeal of James Criswell et al. from the decree of said court upon exceptions to the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the funds in the hands of the assignee for the benefit of creditors of the Lewisburg Building Association. Before the auditor the following facts appeared: — The Lewisburg Building Association was incorporated by the .act of April 21st 1858, P. L. 487, and a supplement to the charter ■passed March 29th 1859, P. L. 291. By the act of April 29th 1874 the association was rechartered but no…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterbett
The Lewisburg Building Association was incorporated by act of April 21st 1858, P.' L. 487, to which was afterward added the supplement of March 29th 1859, P. L. 291. At the expiration of twenty years the Association was re-chartered under the provisions of the act of April 29th 1874, but no new business was done thereafter. The object of the re-charter appears to have been to enable the Association to wind up its affairs. In pursuance of a resolution previously adopted, a general assignment for the benefit of creditors was executed in November 1879. In 1880, the assignee filed a partial…
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