Commonwealth v. Archbald
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Petition for mandamus to be directed to the judges of the court of common pleas of Lackawanna county. S. C. Miscellaneous Docket No. 1, No. 381. Petitioner filed a bill in the common pleas against one Jenkins for an account and settlement, as plaintiff’s agent.
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Petition for mandamus to be directed to the judges of the court of common pleas of Lackawanna county. S. C. Miscellaneous Docket No. 1, No. 381. Petitioner filed a bill in the common pleas against one Jenkins for an account and settlement, as plaintiff’s agent. On hearing before Judge Gunstek, a decree was made in favor of plaintiff, and subsequently, during the last illness and shortly before the death of Judge Gunstek, the other judges referred the matter to a master to state the account. Thereupon plaintiff moved the court to revoke the order as improvidently made and to proceed to take…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
This application is founded on that portion of the amended equity rules adopted in 1894 (see 159 Pa. 25), which provides that “ the office of master in chancery is hereby discontinued, except in proceedings where decrees or interlocutory orders are to be executed, or their execution supervised by an officer of the court.”
The object of the revision of the equity rules was to lessen the delay and expense of the proceedings, and in furtherance of the principle which is the proudest feature in the history of Pennsylvania jurisprudence that equity is part of the…
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