Property — Ownership — Proof — Evidence — Circumstantial — Fraudulent withdrawal of receipts of company — Alleged finding in home of employe — Escheat.
In a proceeding for the escheat of a specified sum of money, in which it appeared that A claimed to have found money in the form of paper currency of various denominations in a carton in the cellar of his home; that A had been employed as a bookkeeper by a dairy corporation, whose officers were his brothers-in-law; and in which there was circumstantial evidence that established that there had been a systematic withdrawal of cash receipts by one of the dairy company officers with the assistance of A, and that the dairy company had become bankrupt; it was Held that the res was a part of the bankrupt estate of the dairy company.
OPINION PER CURIAM, January 7, 1952:
The Court being equally divided in opinion, the case is affirmed on the opinion of Judge ALESSANDRONI, of the lower court.