Worrall's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county : Of January Term 1885, No. 7. Appeal of Clarence A. Worrall from a decree of said court dismissing his exceptions to the report of .a Master reporting that tlie bill in equity filed in tbe case should be dismissed, etc. This was a bill in equity filed by Clarence A. Worrall against Mary A. Bailey to set aside a certain deed executed by the complainant to the defendant.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county : Of January Term 1885, No. 7. Appeal of Clarence A. Worrall from a decree of said court dismissing his exceptions to the report of .a Master reporting that tlie bill in equity filed in tbe case should be dismissed, etc. This was a bill in equity filed by Clarence A. Worrall against Mary A. Bailey to set aside a certain deed executed by the complainant to the defendant. The bill alleged that complainant was a son of Thomas A. Worrall; that the defendant bad been a member in the house-bold of complainant’s father from shortly after…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
If it be true that oetween these parties, at the time and prior to the execution of the deed, there was “simply that relation which results from living in the same house, a desire to assist each other by acts of friendship,” the plaintiff has failed to establish his claim. This is the view of the learned judge of Common Pleas. The Master finds that “ there did exist a very close relation between the plaintiff and defendant,” but omits to state what that relation was; and he further finds that the plaintiff executed the deed, well knowing what he was doing, without coercion or persuasion or…
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