Burke's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe Court of Common Pleas, No. 4, of Philadelphia county: In Equity: Of July Term 1881, No. 97. Appeal by Edward T. Burke from a decree of said court requiring liim to surrender to William Torrey certain securities pledged for an alleged loan or debt.
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Appeal from tbe Court of Common Pleas, No. 4, of Philadelphia county: In Equity: Of July Term 1881, No. 97. Appeal by Edward T. Burke from a decree of said court requiring liim to surrender to William Torrey certain securities pledged for an alleged loan or debt. Tbe bill in equity, filed by William Torrey against Edward T. Burke and tlie several corporations whose stock constituted the subject of tlie pledge, set forth: 1. That on January 2d 1877 tlie defendant Burke loaned to the plaintiff $4,000, taking his promissory note for that amount, payable twelve months after date, tlie plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The question of fact upon which the ease hinged in the court below was whether the stocks in controversy, one hundred and ninety-one shares of First National Bank of Ashland, and one hundred and sixty shares of Odd Fellows’ Temple Association, were pledged as additional security for $4,000, borrowed *358money, or as collateral security for $8,000, the consideration for seventy shares of bank stock which appellant alleged he had sold to appellee.
In the bill filed to redeem these stocks and other collateral securities, the appellee substantially avers that in January 1877 he borrowed from appellant…
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