Legal Opinion

Duc v. Struckus Et Ux.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 26, 1942No. Appeal, 106PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal from the decree of the court below sustaining preliminary objections to a third Amended Bill in Equity for specific performance of an agreement for the sale of land.

The principal reason assigned by the court below for its action in sustaining the objections and dismissing the last amended bill was that it set up “an entirely new and different cause of action obviously for the purpose of escaping the legal pitfall into which the plaintiff had placed himself by the first and second bills of complaint.”

The original bill charged that William and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Piesneski v. StepienSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1930

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Wagner v. Estate of RummelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
  2. Kiley v. BakerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  3. Metzger v. CruikshankSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  4. Citizens Trust Co. v. Metzger, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County1951
  5. Helmer EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1957

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