Presbyterian Church v. Plainfield Trust

All of the significant factual occurrences and events narrated by the bill of complaint, if regarded solely in their substantive character and denuded of all implications of guile or bad faith, are acknowledged to be true by the executors-trustees and by Mr. Fisher in their respective answers.

Recognizing for immediate purposes the facts in that aspect, the complainant asserts that the answers filed by those defendants fail as a matter of law to aver any adequate and effectual defenses to the prayers of the bill. In pursuit of that contention the complainant seeks the allowance of orders…