Lauer v. Lauer Brewing Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 93, Jan. T., 1897, by-plaintiffs, from decree of' C. P. Berks Co., Feb. T., 1897, Equity Docket, 1895, No. 620, on bill in equity. Bill in equity for an account. The Lauer Brewing Company, Limited, was organized January 21, 1882, under the act of assembly of Pennsylvania of June 2, 1874, with three hundred shares of capital stock.
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Appeal, No. 93, Jan. T., 1897, by-plaintiffs, from decree of' C. P. Berks Co., Feb. T., 1897, Equity Docket, 1895, No. 620, on bill in equity. Bill in equity for an account. The Lauer Brewing Company, Limited, was organized January 21, 1882, under the act of assembly of Pennsylvania of June 2, 1874, with three hundred shares of capital stock. On February 4, 1892, George F. Lauer, one of the plaintiffs, owned one hundred and nineteen shares, Frank P. Lauer, one of the defendants, one hundred and seventy-six shares, and William Burrell, another defendant, five shares. The bill alleged that…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion’by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
This appeal appears to be premature. The decree appealed from is not final; nor is it such an interlocutory order or decree as comes within the purview of any of the statutory exceptions to the general rule that appeals in equity lie only from definitive orders or decrees. ' For a brief period it was otherwise as to the common pleas of the first judicial district. The Act of March 17, 1845, P. L. 158, authorized an appeal from “ any interlocutory or final order or decree of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia county: ” Purd. 785, p. 67 ; but, so much…
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