Harrison v. Galilee Baptist Church

Opinion by

Me. Justice Jones,

This appeal challenges the efficacy as an estoppel of a declaration of no set-off to a mortgage given by the mortgagor to an assignee for value of the mortgage.

Galilee Baptist Church (Galilee), agreed in writing with Bernard Kanter (Kanter), to purchase a building-located on Parrish Street, Philadelphia, which Galilee contemplated using for church purposes. According to this purchase-sell agreement, Galilee was to pay Kanter $35,000 of which $8,000 was to be paid in cash by the time of settlement and the balance of $27,000 was to be secured by a purchase money…