Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1839

Fassit v. Phillips

Fassit v. Phillips
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided April 15, 1839
4 Whart. 399; 1839 Pa. LEXIS 222

Fassit v. Phillips

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam. —

The charge of actual fraud is repelled by the answer; and an implication of legal fraud cannot be.raised from the admitted fact, that the house was left out of the assignment. In Thomas v. Jenhs, a substantial benefit was reserved ; but here there was nothing of the sort. The legal title, incumbered as it is sworn to be, beyond the fee simple value, is a caput mortuum, which though it might have swelled the apparent amount of the schedule, could have held out but a deceptive promise to the creditors. It would therefore be useless, and perhaps mischievous, to suspend the execution of the trust till the hearing.

Injunction dissolved.

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