Drape v. Coleman

Citations

• 233 Pa. 585
• 82 A. 957
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 875

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Jurisdiction—Remedy at law — Discovery.</p> <p>Where an owner of a number of coal options sells and assigns the options to another person under an agreement by which the latter is to pay to him $10.00 per acre for each acre of coal to which title is acquired by the exercise of the options, the seller cannot maintain a bill in equity against the purchaser for discovery of the number of acres of coal purchased and for an accounting therefor. In such a case the complainant has an adequate remedy at law, and as discovery is merely incidental to the main relief, it is not sufficient in itself to give equity jurisdiction.</p>