Reese v. Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 382, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 5, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1905, No. 1,270, dismissing bill in equity in case of William X. Reese v. The Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Co., Executors of the Will of Anna X. Pomeroy, deceased, et al. Bill in equity to secure the transfer of securities.
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Appeal, No. 382, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 5, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1905, No. 1,270, dismissing bill in equity in case of William X. Reese v. The Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Co., Executors of the Will of Anna X. Pomeroy, deceased, et al. Bill in equity to secure the transfer of securities. Martin, P. J., found the facts to be as follows: William X. Reese, the complainant, is the nephew of Anna X. Pomeroy, a widow without children of her own, who died August 25, 1905, between the age of sixty-five and seventy years. The relations of William X. Reese…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
If the legal effect and consequence of the transaction between Mrs. Pomeroy and her nephew, William K. Reese, the appellant, are at all obscure, it is not because the transaction itself in any of its features is uncertain or equivocal. It is claimed that what subsequently occurred between the parties show's a purpose in the mind of Mrs. Pomeroy the very opposite of that indicated by the transaction, and a corresponding understanding by the nephew. The learned judge before whom the case was heard derived from the transaction a valid and effective gift of the…
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