Dyer's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Alie, ahemi county, sitting in Equity: Of October and November Term, 1884; No. 233. This was an appeal by Samuel Dyer, guardian of Edwin T. Ray, who was a minor child of David E. Ray, deceased, from a decree of the said court, sustaining a bill in equity, wherein Martha Ray et. al., were plaintiffs and Samuel Dyer, as guardian, and Brice Ray, as administrator of David E. Ray, deceased, were defendants.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Alie, ahemi county, sitting in Equity: Of October and November Term, 1884; No. 233. This was an appeal by Samuel Dyer, guardian of Edwin T. Ray, who was a minor child of David E. Ray, deceased, from a decree of the said court, sustaining a bill in equity, wherein Martha Ray et. al., were plaintiffs and Samuel Dyer, as guardian, and Brice Ray, as administrator of David E. Ray, deceased, were defendants. The bill alleged, substantially, that in December, 1872, Robert R. Ray died intestate, leaving surviving him a widow, Martha Ray, and six…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
That this case is not free from difficulty may be inferred from the fact that of our own motion we ordered a re-argument. In its consideration we have not been aided by the court below, no opinion having been delivered by the learned judge *452"who decided tbe case. We have bad occasion to criticise the practice of sending up cases in equity without an opinion, and in several instances in which a mere pro forma decree had been entered, we denied a hearing here, and sent the case back that it might be argued before, and properly considered by, the court below. A decree without an opinion gives us…
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