Walmsley v. Mendelsohn

The opinion of t'he court was delivered by

Marr, J.

Thomas H. Patterson, a citizen of New Orleans, died at Altoona, in the State of Pennsylvania, on the 15th July, 1872, leaving a will, by which he appointed Walmsley and Patterson, executors, as we gather from the pleadings.

*153At the time of his death Patterson and Sigmund Mendelsohn were commercial partners, under the style of S. Mendelsohn & Co. The record does not show at what time the will was presented for probate, and the executors qualified; but on the 20th July, six days after the death of Patterson, Mendelsohn filed a petition in the…