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...County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest corporations. If the suit succeeds, its two principal sponsors, a pair of young Philadelphia lawyers named Michael Edelman and Abram Jere Creskoff stand to collect $3,000,000 as the State's informers...
...Pennsylvania Legislature has already complimented the pair by passing a law to prevent anybody else from being so profitably smart in the future. But dark, curly-haired, bespectacled Lawyer Edelman and round-faced, blue-eyed, dressy Lawyer Creskoff who filed their informations back in 1935, are not worried...
...lawyers to prosecute the suit. Technicalities over the $160,000 have at long last reached the U. S. Supreme Court whose rulings in comparable cases have upheld the escheat rights of the States. Spurred by the distant glint of a $34,000 commission on the $160,000, Prospectors Edelman & Creskoff went sluicing up the creeks of other Pennsylvania escheat tributaries. Taking corporations capitalized at above $2,000,000, they analyzed corporation statements and manuals, traced unclaimed dividends, stocks, bonds, interest, unclaimed deposits by gas, telephone and water customers, filed a series of informations between April and September 1935 that finally...