Patton v. Commonwealth Trust Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

These four cases against the same defendants were argued together and, as they involve the same questions, we will so treat them. They are companions to the case of Kinter v. Commonwealth Trust Co., 274 Pa. 436, where we held plaintiff’s bill properly dismissed on the ground of laches. The bill was filed, in each of the five cases, to set aside the sale of the respective plaintiffs’ stock in the Harrisburg Pipe & Pipe Bending Company, to William T. Hildrup, Jr., et al., on the ground of fraud. In March, 1915, Hildrup, an executive officer of the corporation,…