Hull v. Delaware & Hudson Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 450, Jan. T., 1915, by defendant, from decree of O. P. Lackáwanna Co., Jan. T., 1908, No. 9, in equity, on bill in equity for an accounting, in case of John L. Hull, F. L. Yan Sickle, E. J. Hull, Executors of George M. Hull, Deceased; Grace H. Peck, Mary E. Hull and Jennie Hull Williams, Administrators, c. t. a., of the Estate of William H. Hull, Deceased; John L. Hull, Mary L. Hull, Alonzo Hull, Orestes T. Hull and Stephen P. Hull, v. The Delaware and Hudson…
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Appeal, No. 450, Jan. T., 1915, by defendant, from decree of O. P. Lackáwanna Co., Jan. T., 1908, No. 9, in equity, on bill in equity for an accounting, in case of John L. Hull, F. L. Yan Sickle, E. J. Hull, Executors of George M. Hull, Deceased; Grace H. Peck, Mary E. Hull and Jennie Hull Williams, Administrators, c. t. a., of the Estate of William H. Hull, Deceased; John L. Hull, Mary L. Hull, Alonzo Hull, Orestes T. Hull and Stephen P. Hull, v. The Delaware and Hudson Company. Bill in equity for an accounting for royalties under a coal lease. From the record it appeared that the questions…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This proceeding, instituted in January, 1908, is for an accounting under a coal lease, executed in 1858, and changed or modified by supplemental agreements. The trial below was long and tedious. Over five thousand pages of testimony were taken and the requests, for findings of fact and law, with briefs of counsel, covered three printed books, aggregating 650 pages, the «requests on both sides numbering 350. Four months were actually consumed in taking the testimony and hearing the arguments of counsel, and more than five years elapsed from the time the case was taken sub judice…
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