Hartley's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna county: Iu Equity. Of January Term 1883, No. 76. This was an appeal by Mark J. Hartley, from a decree of the said court sustaining a report of a Master, whereby a bill iu equity, in which George T. Tingley was complainant, aud said Hartley defendant, praying for the reconveyance by tiie latter to the former of certain property, was sustained, and the relief granted.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna county: Iu Equity. Of January Term 1883, No. 76. This was an appeal by Mark J. Hartley, from a decree of the said court sustaining a report of a Master, whereby a bill iu equity, in which George T. Tingley was complainant, aud said Hartley defendant, praying for the reconveyance by tiie latter to the former of certain property, was sustained, and the relief granted. The facts alleged in the hill arid found by the Master were as follows : In 1857, Tingley went into the possession of a farm in Lenox township, under articles of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stebrett
The averments of fact, on which the equity of the plaintiff below was grounded, are substantially sustained by the report of the learned Master, and hence the decree based thereon should not be disturbed, unless the conclusions drawn by him and,approved by the court were unwarranted by the testimony, lie found, in substance, that prior to September 1st 1877, the appellee was the equitable owner, and has been in possession of the land in controversy since 1857, under articles of agreement on which there was due only $2-13.40 of the consideration money ; that on the first mentioned date, he…
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