Manufacturers' & Mechanics' Savings & Loan Co. v. Odd Fellows' Hall Asso'n
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by the Loan Company from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, reversing the report of the auditor upon the account of the administratrix of the estate of Charles Shaffer, deceased.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by the Loan Company from the decree of the Orphans’ Court, reversing the report of the auditor upon the account of the administratrix of the estate of Charles Shaffer, deceased. The case was this:— Charles Shaffer was, on the 15th day of July 1855, elected treasurer of the Odd Eellows’ Hall Association of Spring Garden, for the remainder of the year 1855, the treasurer who had been elected in January 1855 having died a few months after his election. On the 15th day of September 1856, Shaffer, agreeably to the by-laws of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
— Charles Shaffer was the treasurer of the Odd Eellows’ Hall Association in the year 1855 — elected to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the treasurer of that year. The office under the charter and by-laws is annual, and Shaffer was re-elected annually until the year 1860. In September 1855 he gave his own bond as treasurer, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as treasurer. On this bond judgment was entered in pursuance of a warrant of attorney. He was in no default until 1860, when he died, indebted to the Odd Eellows’…
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