Penn v. Butler
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
These-were bills in equity, involving a great variety of facts, respecting the disposition of the estates of the late proprietary family: but the principal object of all of them, was submitted for the opinion of the court, on the following agreement: “It is agreed, that these suits be submitted for the opinion of the court, upon the following statement of facts, admitted by all the parties, except the fact, that Anthony Butler, for his own accommodation, and without the…
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These-were bills in equity, involving a great variety of facts, respecting the disposition of the estates of the late proprietary family: but the principal object of all of them, was submitted for the opinion of the court, on the following agreement: “It is agreed, that these suits be submitted for the opinion of the court, upon the following statement of facts, admitted by all the parties, except the fact, that Anthony Butler, for his own accommodation, and without the consent, knowledge, or approbation, of John Penn the elder, took, inter alia, in part payment of certain sales herein after…
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT
were decidedly of opinion, that, at law, the surviving obligee was entitled to the possession of the joint securities, that he might recover the amount; and that there was no ground laid, on the present occasion, for the interposition of a court of ■equity.
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