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201 Pa. 46

Braden v. Workman

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 8, 1901

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1901-11-08

Appeal, No. 34, Oct. T., 1901, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Washington Co., No. 515, dismissing bill in equity in case of Wm. H. Braden and Mary Ann Braden et al. v. William Workman, Cashier of the Washington Savings Bank, for the use of the stockholders of the bank. Bill in equity to declare a trust. The case was previously reported in 43 Legal Intelligencer, 240.

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Affirmed · Decided 1901-11-08

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¶1In 1883 the sheriff’s vendee of the property in controversy, which had been sold as William H. Braden’s, brought ejectment against the latter and his wife, Mary Ann Braden, to recover possession of the premises. Defense was made by the wife that the property was hers, and in support of her claim she undertook to set up a resulting trust, resting in parol. The evidence which she offered was rejected as inadmissible under the act of 1856, and on November 2, 1885, we affirmed the judgment in favor of the plaintiff below. In this proceeding the wife now produces a writing upon which she relies as sufficient proof that her husband held the property as trustee for her; but as the master has found, and the court below has affirmed his findings, which, upon a review of all the evidence, we are unwilling to disturb, that this paper is a forgery, her last estate is worse than her first, and the decree that her bill be dismissed is affirmed.

¶2Appeal dismissed at the appellant’s costs.

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