Legal Opinion

Miller v. Piatt

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 13, 1907No. Appeal, No. 23PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal, No. 23, Jan. T., 1907, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. Wyoming Co., Equity Book, p. 219, dissolving preliminary injunction in case of Elmer J. Miller and Elizabeth Miller, his wife, v. James W. Piatt. Bill in equity for an injunction. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. Errors assigned were certain findings of fact and the decree dissolving the preliminary injunction.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Henderson, J.,

Mrs. Miller, one of the plaintiffs, alleges that she was induced to give the note and accept the sheriff’s deed referred to in the bill on the representation of the defendant that his judgment, on which the sheriff’s sale was had, was a lien on five acres of land belonging to her which had formerly belonged to one Marvin Sickler, the defendant in the execution on which the land was sold; that this representation was false and fraudulent, and that she is, therefore, entitled to a decree for the cancellation of the judgment entered on her note and to a decree directing…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Brinkerhoff v. BrownNew York Court of Chancery · 1820
  2. Steinmeyer v. SiebertSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
  3. Boone v. ChilesSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
  4. Hancock v. MelloySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
  5. Cummins v. HurlbuttSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. McFarland v. HeverlySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
  2. Summers v. ShryockSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
  3. Cicchini v. Maioriello, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1939

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