Roshi's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: In Equity: No. 144, to October and November Term 1870. On the 28th of July 1869, Andrew Koehler, Henry Roshi, Henry Shaffer, Conrad Reitz and John Kramer, filed a bill against Peter Roshi, Adam Hill, Jacob Baner, Adam Gundaker and Robert Koehler.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: In Equity: No. 144, to October and November Term 1870. On the 28th of July 1869, Andrew Koehler, Henry Roshi, Henry Shaffer, Conrad Reitz and John Kramer, filed a bill against Peter Roshi, Adam Hill, Jacob Baner, Adam Gundaker and Robert Koehler. The bill set out: 1 and 2. In 1836, Thomas Astley conveyed to Rev. P. Zaiser, a minister of the German Reformed Church, and Peter Stein and other members of that church, an acre of land in Greenwood township, Crawford county, for the use of “ The German Reformed Church and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, October 30th 1871, by
Sharswood, J.
The question whether, under the equity powers conferred by the Act of Assembly of June 16th 1836, upon the Courts of Common Pleas, those courts have jurisdiction of such a cause of complaint as is set forth in the bill in this case, has been considered and settled by this court in Kisor’s Appeal, 12 P. F. Smith 428. It had often before been assumed and exercised without dispute, and with the implied recognition of this court. If a private partnership or a corporation falls into confusion affecting all its members, there…
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