Ginsburg v. Collins

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill in equity for specific performance of a written agreement to sell a house to plaintiff. The answer admitted all the averments of fact and set up as a defense that defendant was incompetent to transact business of the nature and character set forth in the bill, and that she was not competent to understand what she was signing when she signed the agreement. The learned chancellor found upon evidence (and hence its finding must be accepted as correct: Colwes v. Meyer, 272 Pa. 323) that defendant was competent to enter into…