Keeney v. Handrick
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, No. 131, Jan. T., 1892, by plaintiff, Seth L. Keeney, executor of the estate of P. M. Osterhout, deceased, from judgment of C. P. Wyoming Co., Nov. T., 1890, No. 38, on verdict for defendant, Eugene S. Handrick, in feigned issue certified from O. C.; No. 130, Jan. T., 1892, from decree of O. C. Wyoming Co., approving the verdict of the jury in C. P., dissolving injunction and dismissing petition. Issue certified by orphans’ court to determine ownership of bonds.
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Appeals, No. 131, Jan. T., 1892, by plaintiff, Seth L. Keeney, executor of the estate of P. M. Osterhout, deceased, from judgment of C. P. Wyoming Co., Nov. T., 1890, No. 38, on verdict for defendant, Eugene S. Handrick, in feigned issue certified from O. C.; No. 130, Jan. T., 1892, from decree of O. C. Wyoming Co., approving the verdict of the jury in C. P., dissolving injunction and dismissing petition. Issue certified by orphans’ court to determine ownership of bonds. At the trial, before Sittseb, P. J., the evidence was to the following effect: P. M. Osterhout was the owner of the bonds…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This was an issue sent from the orphans’ court of Wyoming county into the court of common pleas of said county, for trial, in which Seth L. Keeney, as executor of the last will and testament of P. M. Osterhout, deceased, was plaintiff, and E. S. Handrick was defendant. The issue was to try the question of ownership of seven bonds, of $1,000 each, formerly the property of the said P. M. Osterhout, deceased. The defendant contended that the bonds in question had been given to him by the deceased, shortly before Ms death. The plaintiff contended that there had been no such valid gift,…
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