Legal Opinion
William R. McCorkle and Jeane D. McCorkle v. The First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 20, 1972No. 71-1157PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge:
We face here an unhappy predicament: The law and the equities appear certain, yet we may not decide the case on its merits because of a technical jurisdictional deficiency. Although the appellant raised the jurisdictional question for the first time at the appellate level, we reluctantly accept its contentions. The judgment of the District Court, 321 F. Supp. 149, must be vacated and the case dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. 1
I. Facts
There is no contest concerning the facts. In October 1966, Patrick Murphy, a resident of Harford County,…
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