Powell v. Old Hickory Building & Loan Ass'n
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 415 and 416, Jan. T., 1916, by defendant, from decrees of C. P. No. 2, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 4324, in equity and C. P. No. 5, Philadelphia Co., Dec. T., 1914, No. 3086, in equity, for the respective plaintiffs, in cases of John Powell and Jane Powell v. Old Hickory Building and Loan Association and George S. Bussell v. Old Hickory Building & Loan Association. Bill in equity to compel defendant to pay off and extinguish two ground rents.
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Appeals, Nos. 415 and 416, Jan. T., 1916, by defendant, from decrees of C. P. No. 2, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1914, No. 4324, in equity and C. P. No. 5, Philadelphia Co., Dec. T., 1914, No. 3086, in equity, for the respective plaintiffs, in cases of John Powell and Jane Powell v. Old Hickory Building and Loan Association and George S. Bussell v. Old Hickory Building & Loan Association. Bill in equity to compel defendant to pay off and extinguish two ground rents. Before Sulzberger, P. J. Bill in equity to compel defendant to pay off and satisfy a mortgage. Before Ralston, J. From the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
These are appeals by the Old Hickory Building and Loan Association, the defendant, from decrees entered against it in the Courts of Common Pleas Nos. 2 and 5 of Philadelphia County, in which John Powell and wife and George S. Russell are plaintiffs, respectively, to compel the defendant to pay and extinguish two ground rents in the one case, and to pay and satisfy a mortgage in the other case. The cases grow out of substantially *592similar transactions and the learned chancellors who heard them came to the same conclusion on a similar state of facts. The counsel…
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- Pepper v. Cairns, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1890
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- Williams v. GettySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1858
- Reformed Presbyterian Church v. LivingstonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
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