Reeder v. Trullinger & Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 84, July T., 1891, by defendants, Geo. Trullinger, Geo. Pancake and Alfred Pancake, trading as Geo. Trullinger & Co., from decree of C. P. Centre Co., Aug. T., 1882, No. 133, for plaintiff, in bill for conveyance or account, by Wilbur F. Reeder, administrator of Geo. M. Hertline, deceased. Bill to compel conveyance or for account. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 84, July T., 1891, by defendants, Geo. Trullinger, Geo. Pancake and Alfred Pancake, trading as Geo. Trullinger & Co., from decree of C. P. Centre Co., Aug. T., 1882, No. 133, for plaintiff, in bill for conveyance or account, by Wilbur F. Reeder, administrator of Geo. M. Hertline, deceased. Bill to compel conveyance or for account. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The bill was filed by Hertline, who died pending the suit, and his administrator was substituted. The case was referred to D. F. Fortney, as master, who filed a report recommending that the bill be…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Heydbick,
The first error assigned, and that to which the arguments of counsel were mainly directed, is that the learned court below, reversing the master, found that the deed of George R. Boak and wife to the defendants, though absolute upon its face, was intended as a security for the payment of money. Counsel do not differ as to the principles by which the court should have been guided when dealing with the question involved in this finding. On the one hand it is conceded that a deed made before the passage of the act of June 8,1881, though in form absolute, may be…
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