Ahl's Assigned Estate

15 Pa. Super. 224, 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 327

• Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: October 22, 1900
• Docket: Appeals, Nos. 1, 2, 11, 12
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion by

W. D. Porter, J.,

We have here four appeals which raise but one question, were argued at the same time and may properly be disposed of by one order. The exceptions filed in the court below and the specifications of error relied upon here do not raise any question as to the balance in the hands of the accountant, but the appellant contends that the court below fell into error in its decree distributing the trust funds. He attempts to establish that the fund admitted to be in his hands for distribution ought to go to parties other than those to whom it was by the court below awarded. The assignee, having brought his account and the trust funds into the court of common pleas for distribution, it can make no difference to him what distribution the court may decree. Any creditor, or either of the assignors, might appeal, but the assignee for the benefit of creditors has no beneficial interest in the funds reported for distribution, by the account filed, and no standing, as assignee, to appeal from the decree distributing such fund. These appeals are all taken by the appellant in his character of assignee and inbno other capacity. In Mellon’s Appeal, 32 Pa. 121, it was said: “ Hereafter, an assignee, appellant, must show affirmatively that he is, in his own person, a party aggrieved, to entitle him to appeal from the decree of distribution of the fund in his hands.” The same question has been repeatedly ruled to the same effect in subsequent cases: Singmaster’s Appeal, 86 Pa. 169; Herbst’s Appeal, 90 Pa. 353; Estate of Graff, Bennett & Company, 146 Pa. 415.

There is no appellant complaining who has a right to be heard.

The appeals of W. A. Coffey, assignee, at Nos. 1, 2, 11 and 12, March term, 1901, are quashed.