Schnurman v. Hillegas
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 154, Jan. T., 1923, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Lehigh Co., Oct. T., 1921, No. 1, dismissing bill in equity, in case of Hannah Schnurman v. Jesse Z. Hillegas. Bill in equity to compel reconveyance of real estate. Before Groman, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Bill dismissed. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Simpson,
Plaintiff filed a bill in equity, asking the court below to require defendant to reconvey her a property in Allentown, which she had deeded him, by reason of his “fraud, misrepresentation,......duress and coercion, as well as upon a false promise which......[he] knew was false and had no intention of complying with”; all of which occurred when she. was “aged and infirm, being-then over the age of seventy-five years, and confined to *559her home by illness.” The bill was evidently prepared in great haste, in order to prevent defendant from conveying the property (as…
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