Schaeffer v. Herman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 16, Jan. T., 1912, by American Lime and Stone Company, defendant, from decree of C. P. Centre Co., Jan. T., 1906, No. 1, on bill in equity in case of Lewis A. Schaeffer, now for use of Rembrandt Peale and T. A. Shoemaker v. John H. Herman, Alice E. Herman, Samuel Sheffer, Frank Warfield, John P. Harris and American Lime and Stone Company. Bill in equity for specific performance. Before Orvis, P. J., and Savidge, P. J., specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 16, Jan. T., 1912, by American Lime and Stone Company, defendant, from decree of C. P. Centre Co., Jan. T., 1906, No. 1, on bill in equity in case of Lewis A. Schaeffer, now for use of Rembrandt Peale and T. A. Shoemaker v. John H. Herman, Alice E. Herman, Samuel Sheffer, Frank Warfield, John P. Harris and American Lime and Stone Company. Bill in equity for specific performance. Before Orvis, P. J., and Savidge, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Errors assigned, among others, were in overruling demurrers to the bill and the decree of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
The consideration of this case has been approached from so many angles, that it is difficult to blaze a correct line through the underbrush of legal technicalities to the material points necessary to a proper solution *89of .the questions here involved. It will be impossible, within anything like the proper limits of an opinion, to discuss consecutively and separately each of the thirty-four assignments of error, and it is not necessary to do so in order to determine the rights of the parties. The original bill was filed by Schaeffer, plaintiff, against John H.…
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