Groff v. City Saving Fund & Trust Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 197, Oct. T., 1906, by L. E. Ryder, from decree of C. P. Lancaster Col, Equity Docket, No. 4, page 18B, on bill in equity in case of Annie H. Groff v. City Saving Fund & Trust Company. Motion to quash appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The appellant is met at the threshold by a motion to quash the appeal because of his failure to comply with Rule 92 of the equity rules adopted by the Supreme Court, by filing in the court below with his notice of appeal a brief statement of the errors he alleged to have been made by the decree appealed from. The equity rules have the force of a statute in regulating the trial of equity cases. Neither the court of common pleas nor this court has power to ignore them ; and where they are disregarded in material matters and objection is made it is our duty to give effect…
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