Crawford v. Shriver

Citations

• 139 Pa. 239
• 21 A. 518
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 980

Syllabus

<p>1. Defendants in a bill for an account as to a partnership interest, admitting their possession and their liability to account to the real owner of tbe interest, have no standing to appeal from a decree confirming the report of a master, on an interpleader instituted to determine the question of ownership.</p> <p>2. One who is substituted a party defendant to a suit, as the executor of a deceased party, may not be examined as to matters occurring before the death of his decedent, notwithstanding a plaintiff to the bill had been examined and testified at length before the decedent’s death.</p> <p>3. On the talcing of an account as to the value of a partnership interest, sold at sheriff’s sale to the plaintiffs in the bill, an inventory of stock taken just before the sale, proved only by the testimony of a witness who found it in the partnership safe two years after the sale, is inadmissible.</p>