Conn v. Penn

delivered the opinion of the Court.. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the district of Pennsylvania, dismissing the bill of the plaintiffs.

Without gbing into the merits of the case, the counsel for the plaintiffs contend, that the decree ought , to be reversed^ because it appears to have been pronounced in part on parol testimony, which has not been introduced into the record, and because the decree was made when the parties interested were, not all. before the Court.

The laws of the United States have always proceeded on the supposition, that in revising decrees in…