Case law

Clark & Co. v. Bank of Wheeling

17 Pa. 322 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Feb 2, 1851

And if, by his neglect to do this, the principal has suffered a loss, he is entitled to be indemnified by the agent: Brown v. Arrott, 6 W. & Ser. 416. In a case of this kind Mr. … v.

Livingston v. Vanguard Federal Savings Bank

386 Pa. Super. 496 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 8, 1989

Toolan v. Trevose Federal Savings and Loan Ass’n, 501 Pa. 477 , 462 A.2d 224 (1983), citing Jones v. … Lukus v. Westinghouse Electric Corp., supra, quoting Ray v. Atlantic Richfield Co., 435 U.S. 151, 157 , 98 S.Ct. 988, 994 , 55 L.Ed.2d 179 (1978), quoting Rice v.

Chernoff's Case

344 Pa. 527 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 20, 1942

We thus announced our attitude in a comparatively recent case, Stone v. … A further quotation from Stone v.

Commonwealth v. Yates

531 Pa. 373 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 16, 1992

In Commonwealth v. … Commonwealth v. Sneed, 514 Pa. 597, 606-07 , 526 A.2d 749, 754 (1987)....

Commonwealth Ex Rel. Laughlin v. Green

351 Pa. 170 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 27, 1944

Grabert v. … In Adams v.

Overholt v. National Bank

82 Pa. 490 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 13, 1876

This question was not before the court, and was not decided in Brown v. The Second National Bank of Erie, 22 P. F. Smith 209. … The words of the Act of Congress, “ shall be held a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill or other evidence carries with it,” as was said in Brown v.

WOOD v. Goldvarg

365 Pa. 92 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jun 26, 1950

In his negotiations with plaintiffs and his petition to the Board, Goldvarg never sought nor expected to obtain permission to construct anything but a double duplex apartment. … It is well settled that in order to oust equity jurisdiction, there must be a legal remedy that is adequate and complete: Fraser Fund v. Fraser, 350 Pa. 553 , 40 A. 2d 22 ; Hunter v.

Baker's Appeal

109 Pa. 461 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 18, 1885

After providing for the election of president and other officers of the board, the fourth section of the Act authorizes the board of directors “ to adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations, not' inconsistent with the laws … As was said in Hayes v. Commonwealth, 1 Norris, 518, “This was part of the contract under which they entered into the company and paid their money.

Commonwealth v. Tribble

502 Pa. 619 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Dec 1, 1983

Commonwealth v. Bastone, 466 Pa. 548 , 353 A.2d 827 (1976). The record discloses the following: On June 19, 1980, several trucks owned by the Opportunity Board of Montgomery County were broken into. … In Commonwealth v.

Commonwealth v. Hosack

485 Pa. 128 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 1, 1979

In Commonwealth v. … or by the Pardon Board in a sentence which has been reduced by commutation . . . .’

Pursel v. Ellis

5 Watts & Serg. 525 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 15, 1843

Thus, in Frantz v. Brown, (1 Penn. Rep. 257), it is held, that chancery will enjoin an obligee in a bond or his assignee from proceeding at law while the obligor remains a loser or in jeopardy as a surety. … The principle of Frantz v. Brown, fits the case in hand. Here, there is a contintingent liability for the amount of the note, which the defendant, for aught we know, may be compelled, to pay.

Ebbert v. Plymouth Oil Co.

348 Pa. 129 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 1, 1943

Hallahan, 211 Pa. 223 , 60 A. 735 ; Williams v. … S.) *172, *183; Rhines v. Evans, 66 Pa. 192, 194, 195 ; Guarantee Trust *137 & Safe Deposit Co. v.

Hunter v. Howard

10 Serg. & Rawle 243 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 26, 1823

A survey was made, a caveat entered by Andrews, and a decision of the board of property in favour of Howard, but no patent was issued. … This board possesses no judicial power: they are bare agents: their acts, where >they exceed their authority, void, liké the acts of all other agents. In Bixler v.

Valley Forge Towers Apartments N, LP v. Upper Merion Area School District

163 A.3d 962 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 5, 2017

of Assessment Appeals (the “Board”). … It reasoned that its pre-Springfield decision in Weissenberger v. Chester County Board of Assessment Appeals, 62 A.3d 501 (Pa.

PA Dem Party. v. Boockvar Pet: Boockvar

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 3, 2020

WILLIAMS : : : v. … See Hollingsworth v.

Commonwealth v. Hulings

129 Pa. 317 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jun 28, 1889

As this was a reference under the act of 1874, the findings of fact by the court are not reviewable here, further than the finding of a jury is reviewable upon a writ of error in a common law proceeding: Jamison v. … Collins, 83 Pa. 359 ; Lee v. Keys, 88 Pa. 175 ; Brown v. Dempsey, 95 Pa. 243 ; Commonwealth v. Lehigh Valley R. Co., 104 Pa. 89 ; Bradlee v. Whitney, 108 Pa. 362 .

Nearhoff v. Addleman

31 Pa. 279 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 1, 1858

On this point, we think, that neither Kite v. Brown, 5 Barr 291, nor Hole v. Rittenhouse, 1 Casey 491, rules the ease. … Brown, with associated warrants, with the external lines run but not dissevered by intermediate lines, and which also was the character of the body of lands alluded to by Chief Justice Lewis in the remark in Hole v.

Commonwealth v. Lee, D., Aplt.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 26, 2026

See Scott v. Pa. … There is, however, no right to favorable parole consideration by the Board. Indeed, a Board decision to deny parole is not subject to judicial review. See Pittman v. Pa.

Philip Haibach Contracting Co. v. Hornung

270 Pa. 350 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 18, 1921

We have frequently held and recently repeated that unless we can say the action of the court in refusing judgment on rules of this character is clearly erroneous and free from doubt, its order will not be disturbed: Brown … et al. v.

Brooks Building Tax Assessment Case

391 Pa. 94 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 6, 1958

Tax Assessment Case,. 380 Pa. 134 ; Flamingo Apartments, Inc., v.. Board of Revision of Taxes, 383 Pa. 223 . … Exactly the same contention was made and rejected in Cumberland Coal Co. v. Board of Revision of Tax Assessments in Greene County, 284 U.S. 23 . . . .