Octoraro Water Co. v. Garrison
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 196, Jan. T., 1921, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Lancaster Co., for plaintiff, on bail in equity, in case of Octoraro Water Co. v. P. Lynwood Garrison et al. Bill in equity to cancel deeds alleged to be a cloud on title. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Decree entered as prayed for. Defendants appealed. Error assigned, among others, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaffer,
In this bill in equity, plaintiff alleges that three certain deeds, one to F. Lynwood Garrison, another by him to the Chrome Mining Company, and the third, from the receivers of the Tyson Mining Company to the Chrome Mining Company, constitute a cloud on complainant’s title and prays they may be set aside and annulled. The chancellor, after hearing, granted the relief prayed for, and defendants have appealed.
The controversy, in its final analysis, sifts down to the construction of a single paragraph in the deed to plaintiff, its construction being helped and…
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