Wagner v. Fehr
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 48, Jan. T., 1905, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Berks Co., equity docket 1903, No. 846, dismissing bill in equity in ease of John S. Wagner v. Horace Fehr and Francis F. Seidel. Bill in equity for a reconveyance of real estate. Before EndLICH, J. The material averments of the bill and the grounds of demurrer are set forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was decree dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
The purpose of the bill filed in this case is to annul and set aside a contract for the conveyance of real estate and to compel a reconveyance of the property. The bill avers that the defendants and certain other parties procured a charter for a *437corporation under the name of the American Match Company; that by the certificate it was made to appear that the capital stock of the corporation was $200,000, divided into 2,000 shares, and that defendant Fehr had subscribed for 180 shares and defendant Seidel for 532 shares, and that $20,000, ten per cent of the…
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