Gilder v. Merwin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This case came before the court on a motion to dissolve an injunction which had been allowed on the 19th of December last, upon a bill filed by John Gilder against Mary Merwin and others.
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This case came before the court on a motion to dissolve an injunction which had been allowed on the 19th of December last, upon a bill filed by John Gilder against Mary Merwin and others. The bill set forth—that sometime in the month of January, 1839, one Joseph E. West, of the state of New Jersey, was in the city of Philadelphia, and was then, as he represented to the complainant, somewhat embarrassed in his circumstances, but possessed of such sufficient means, that if he were relieved of his then difficulties, he would be able to discharge all his liabilities; which representation the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
This case has involved the discussion of a great variety of topics, as well on the merits as on the equity practice, all of which, however’, must necessarily be subordinate to the principal question, whether the court has jurisdiction I For the legislature have by no means conferred on us an universal, or even a general equity jurisdiction, as seems to have been conceived by some, and may be inferred from several instances of the same kind in which suitors have thought fit to apply to the equity jurisdiction of our *541courts. On the contrary,…
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