Harrison's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 369, Jan. T., 1911, by the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Company and Theodore L. Harrison, Executors and Trustees of the Estate of Joseph Harrison, Jr., deceased, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., April T., 1879, No. 330, granting an injunction, in estate of Joseph Harrison, Jr., deceased. Petition for an injunction. Before Dallett, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court granted the injunction.
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Appeal, No. 369, Jan. T., 1911, by the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Company and Theodore L. Harrison, Executors and Trustees of the Estate of Joseph Harrison, Jr., deceased, from decree of O. C. Philadelphia Co., April T., 1879, No. 330, granting an injunction, in estate of Joseph Harrison, Jr., deceased. Petition for an injunction. Before Dallett, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court granted the injunction. The Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Company and Theodore L. Harrison, executors and trustees, appealed. Error assigned was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
This is a proceeding to restrain the trustees of the estate involved from erecting a hotel property and making other improvements upon certain lands which lie wholly within the lines of the plotted parkway and paying for the improvements out of trust funds. The expenditure of trust funds for this purpose is resisted by the beneficiaries on the ground that it will constitute a waste of the estate’s money and this position is asserted on the assumption that there can be no recovery of damages by way of compensation for the improvements thus contemplated, because what…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Whitaker v. Phœnixville Bor.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
- In re the District of PittsburghSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1841
- Bush v. McKeesport CitySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Forbes StreetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872
- Shaaber v. Reading CitySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
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- Dintaman v. HarrisburgSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- Commonwealth v. DyerPhiladelphia County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1963
- Delaware Ice Co. v. City of Easton, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Northampton County1923
- Emaus Borough v. Security Trust Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lehigh County1925
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