Lincoln v. Wakefield
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 146, Jan. T., 1912, by defendants, from decree.of C. P. Huntingdon Co., May T., 1908, No. 148, on bill in equity in case of J. G. Lincoln, Julia B. Glazier, Mary E. Glazier, Phoebe A. Glazier and Hattie F. Glazier, executrices of C. H. Glazier, deceased, and B. J. Mattern, assignee for the benefit of the creditors of Julia T. Glazier v. Harry G. Wakefield, Mary Catherine Wakefield, and Merle Stewart Wakefield, whose guardian, ad. litem, is George W. Wright; J.…
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Appeal, No. 146, Jan. T., 1912, by defendants, from decree.of C. P. Huntingdon Co., May T., 1908, No. 148, on bill in equity in case of J. G. Lincoln, Julia B. Glazier, Mary E. Glazier, Phoebe A. Glazier and Hattie F. Glazier, executrices of C. H. Glazier, deceased, and B. J. Mattern, assignee for the benefit of the creditors of Julia T. Glazier v. Harry G. Wakefield, Mary Catherine Wakefield, and Merle Stewart Wakefield, whose guardian, ad. litem, is George W. Wright; J. Stewart Africa, Jane Miller, and W. M. Miller, her husband. Bill in Equity for partition. Before Wíoods, P. J. The opinion…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Moschzisker,
This is a proceeding in. partition on the equity side of the court; when the case was.here before (228 Pa. 546), we were obliged to send it' back for a retrial. The defendant who entered the former appeal is again the appellant, and the few points essential to a determination. of the case are involved in a maze of 50 assignments of. error. Before entering upon a discussion of these points, we take occasion to say that the practice of multiplying specifications of error tends to hurt rather than to help the proper consideration of a cause. When one assignment…
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