Dilworth v. Nicola

Citations

• 213 Pa. 315
• 62 A. 909
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 469

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Conveyance—Assignment—Sale.</p> <p>Where a person purchases a share of a one-half interest in the profits of a real estate transaction, and receives as his only evidence of interest therein a receipt for the money, he may compel the vendor by a bill in equity to execute a formal assignment of the share, and it is no answer to such a bill that there could be no severance of interests until the transaction was closed at the end of twenty-five years thereafter.</p>