Fry's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 357, 'Jan. T., 1921, by Max Lewis and Benjamin Superstine, from decree of O. C. Schuylkill Co., dismissing petition for conveyance of real estate, in estate of E. J. Fry, deceased. Petition for conveyance of real estate. Before Wilhelm, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the petition. Max Lewis and Benjamin Superstine appealed. Error assigned, among others, was above decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaeeer,
The argument of this case took a wider range than the record warrants, and its decision, necessarily based upon it, must leave the solution of most of the questions, pressed upon our attention, to future proceedings in which they can properly be raised.
What was really before the court below, as the record discloses, was the petition of Max Lewis and Benjamin Superstine, vendees under articles of agreement signed by the heirs of E. J. Fry, of a lot of land in the borough of Tamaqua, of which he died seized, praying for an order restraining Charles Graef, executor…
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