Wright's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appear from the Court of Commom Pleas No. 2, of Philadelphia, county: In Equity: Of January Term 1881, No. 112. Appeal of Ellen E. Wright from a decree of said court, dismissing her exceptions to tlie report of a Master in the matter of a cross-bill filed by her, in a cause wherein Sarah Swain and William M. Baugh were complainants, and the West Philadelphia Passenger liailway Company, its officers and directors and others, were the defendants.
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Appear from the Court of Commom Pleas No. 2, of Philadelphia, county: In Equity: Of January Term 1881, No. 112. Appeal of Ellen E. Wright from a decree of said court, dismissing her exceptions to tlie report of a Master in the matter of a cross-bill filed by her, in a cause wherein Sarah Swain and William M. Baugh were complainants, and the West Philadelphia Passenger liailway Company, its officers and directors and others, were the defendants. The original bill in equity, filed October 20th 1877, set forth that the complainants were stockholders in the West Philadelphia Passenger Railway…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The amount involved in this case is large, and it is apparent *431that a heavy loss must fall upon one of two innocent parties. Both appear to have reposed blind confidence in John S. Morton, who is the central figure in the unpleasant story of speculation and dishonor which this record unfolds.
The learned counsel for the respective parties have furnished us with able and exhaustive arguments upon the points presented, and we have no difficulty in arriving at our conclusions upon the law of the case.
The assignments of error raise but two questions: 1st, was Morton the agent of the company or of…
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