Potter v. Fidelity Insurance Trust & Safe Deposit Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 230, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., June T., 1399, No. 788, dismissing bill in equity in case of George Van Hook Potter v. The Fidelity Insurance Trust & Safe Deposit Company. Bill in equity to revoke a voluntary deed of trust. Awdenried, J., stated the facts to be as follows: The following facts were developed at the trial: During the plaintiff’s minority the defendants had been guardians of his estate.
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Appeal, No. 230, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., June T., 1399, No. 788, dismissing bill in equity in case of George Van Hook Potter v. The Fidelity Insurance Trust & Safe Deposit Company. Bill in equity to revoke a voluntary deed of trust. Awdenried, J., stated the facts to be as follows: The following facts were developed at the trial: During the plaintiff’s minority the defendants had been guardians of his estate. He came of age April 17, 1895, while still at college. Shortly before this date Mr. Wright, now deceased, then vice-president of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
We concur in the conclusions of fact and law reached by the learned judge of the common pleas. There was no evidence of fraud, imposition or mistake, and there is no room for doubt *365that the deed when executed expressed the deliberate intention of the settlor. Although a young man just coming into possession of his estate, he was fully capable of understanding what he did, the reason for it and its effect. He took ample time after the subject of the creation of a trust was first suggested to him to consider it before acting, and he had the advice of his mother and of…
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