Sullivan v. Sullivan
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 130, April T., 1918, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Allegheny County, Jan. T., 1917, No. 2237, sitting in equity, dismissing bill for discovery and an accounting in the case of Hannah Sullivan v. Ellen Walsh Sullivan, executrix of the will of Eugene Sullivan, and Ellen Walsh Sullivan. Bill in equity for discovery and an accounting. Before Davis, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 130, April T., 1918, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Allegheny County, Jan. T., 1917, No. 2237, sitting in equity, dismissing bill for discovery and an accounting in the case of Hannah Sullivan v. Ellen Walsh Sullivan, executrix of the will of Eugene Sullivan, and Ellen Walsh Sullivan. Bill in equity for discovery and an accounting. Before Davis, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, among others, was decree of the court dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The important prayers of the bill were first for a decree directing the defendant to account to the plaintiff for the sum of $1,500, with interest thereon from January 26,1889, which was alleged to have been received by Eugene Sullivan, the plaintiff’s father, as her next friend in an action against the Pittsburgh Smelting Company, for personal injuries to the plaintiff; second, that the defendant be directed to account for the rent, income and use of a house and lot alleged to have been purchased by the said Sullivan and paid for with the *398money above recited — tbe…
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- Dalzell v. LewisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916
- Gress' AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1850
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- Davis v. SmithDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1954
- McGrann v. AllenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927