Heffernan v. Heffernan

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

Plaintiff appeals from a decree dismissing his bill filed to obtain cancellation of an agreement made with his brother, a defendant, and the restoration of the status theretofore existing with respect to the subject matter.

The two brothers were stockholders in a corporation known as Wilkes-Barre Independent Company, which published a newspaper in a building owned in common by them. On March 25,1937, they executed an agreement by which the plaintiff sold his stock in the corporation to bis brother and also agreed to execute a lease of the premises in which the…