Davis v. Gerhard
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN EQÜITY. This was a suit in equity instituted by Daniel S. Davis against Benjamin Gerhard, Esq., Joseph P. Norris, Esq. and Benjamin Brown.
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IN EQÜITY. This was a suit in equity instituted by Daniel S. Davis against Benjamin Gerhard, Esq., Joseph P. Norris, Esq. and Benjamin Brown. The bill set forth that the complainant was a just and lawful creditor of a certain Charles F. Roberts in his lifetime, and, since his death, of his estate, in the amount of one thousand dollars, in two promissory notes, drawn and signed by the said Charles F. Roberts, payable to his own order, and endorsed by him; each for five hundred dollars. That the said Charles F. Roberts died sometime in the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
By several acts of assembly enacted in 1836, certain chancery powers are vested in the Supreme Court, and other common law Courts of this state. No one of those laws however, nor all of them, gave to this or any other of those Courts the general powers of a Court of Chancery. The subjects of the chancery jurisdiction are particularly pointed out, as well as the Courts by which each portion of that power is to be exercised. 1 shall confine my observations to the particular question before us, which relates to the power of this Court on a bill…
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