Dalzell v. Crawford
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
The facts of this cause are so fully stated in the opinion of the Court, that it is deemed useless to furnish a more extended synopsis of them. who argued the case on exceptions to the report of the master, that this was a case of unequal bargaining. Crawford was a clergyman and schoolmaster, and not expert in contracts. Dalzell was an expert, familiar with bargains, and the subject connected with sales.
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The facts of this cause are so fully stated in the opinion of the Court, that it is deemed useless to furnish a more extended synopsis of them. who argued the case on exceptions to the report of the master, that this was a case of unequal bargaining. Crawford was a clergyman and schoolmaster, and not expert in contracts. Dalzell was an expert, familiar with bargains, and the subject connected with sales. That the title was doubtful, and was not marketable; that it was not free from doubt and exception, as it must he to render it marketable : 20 Law Lib. 11-12, No. 28. Here it was defective. A…
1Opinion of the Court
*41The opinion of the Court was delivered by
KING, President,
as follows:—
This case arises under a bill filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, to compel the specific execution of a contract for the sale of a house and lot of ground in the city of Philadelphia, entered into between the parties on the 8th of November, 1840. It is presented in the form of exceptions to the report of a master to whom it was referred, “ to inquire and report whether a good title could be made by the plaintiff to the defendant of the messuage and lot mentioned in the pleadings.” Before the master, various…
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