Gallagher v. Merry

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

The appeal is from a decree in equity sustaining preliminary objections to plaintiff’s amended bill of complaint, and the entry of a final decree in favor of defendants.

James Gallagher, the plaintiff, in a crudely drawn amended bill in equity, avers that he was the sole and absolute owner of all the capital stock of two named corporations and that his son-in-law, Walter J. Merry, occupying a confidential relation, fraudulently induced him to transfer all of bis stock holdings to his son-in-law, a daughter and granddaughter (wife and child of the…