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199 Pa. 435

Walker v. Walker

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 27, 1901

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1901-05-27

Appeal, No. 43, Oct. T., 1901, by defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Oct. T., 1899, No. 103, on bill in equity in case of Abel E. Walker v. Wesley J. Walker. Bill in equity to declare a trust in real estate. Sharer, J., found the facts to be as follows: 1. The plaintiff is seventy-eight years old; is, and for some time has been, in somewhat feeble health; is a man of very little education; and has lived for the past forty years or more in McKeesport.

Affirmed · Decided 1901-05-27

Pee Cubiam:,

¶1The findings and conclusions of the learned court below resulted in a decree which the defendant condemns as unjust and illegal. It seems to us, however, that the decree was warranted by the testimony and a protection to the plaintiff against the fraud and injustice which threatened his financial ruin. The schemes concocted by the defendant were designed to deprive the plaintiff of his property and to render him penniless in his declining years. The decree complained of by the defendant checked him in his reckless and disreputable career. It is to be hoped that hereafter his record will be more acceptable to some persons who have had transactions with him than it has been heretofore.

¶2As we have not discovered any error in the decree complained of we unhesitatingly affirm it.

¶3Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at the cost of the appellant.

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