Opinion

Standard Soap & Oil Co. v. Printz Degreasing Co.

  • 232 Pa. 64
  • 81 A. 129
  • 1911 Pa. LEXIS 675
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
May 23, 1911
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown, Elkin, Fell, Mestrezat, Moschzisker, Potter
Cited by
5 cases
Authority
More cited than 78.8%

The opinion

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Brown,

The main prayer of the bill filed by the appellant in the court below was for the specific performance of a contract with the appellee. Under two facts found by the learned chancellor he concluded that the appellee was justified in canceling the contract and dismissed the bill. If these facts were properly found the decree inevitably followed. Counsel for appellant realized the burden that rested upon them in asking that the findings of fact by the court below should be reversed, and thirty-eight assignments of error have been filed. Only four were needed for a reversal of the decree, if the court erred in passing upon the right of the appellee to terminate the agreement and to enforce the provisions of its tenth clause. Though the numerous assignments complain of. the court’s findings and of what was not found, not one is to the decree, and it cannot therefore be disturbed. We have repeatedly referred to the mistake of multiplying assignments of error. As a rule, when they are unduly numerous, they are “suggestive of firing at random in the bushes in the hope that a stray shot may produce a favorable result:” Clay v. Western Maryland R. R. Co., 221 Pa. 439 . Of the numerous shots fired in this case not one has hit the decree. It has escaped all of the assignments, and we must, therefore, assume it to be correct: Johnston’s Estate, 222 Pa. 514 . If it is " right, it is of little moment what led up to it: Fullerton’s Estate, 146 Pa. 61 ; and, as it is the wrong from which the appellant suffers, if it was improperly made, it must be assigned as error: Seltzer v. Boyer, 224 Pa. 369 . The ap *66 peal is dismissed at appellant’s costs, and the decree affirmed, without prejudice to its right to bring an action at law for the recovery of the $300 paid on February 20,1907, for fifty tons of oil which were never delivered.

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