Real Estate & Mortgage Co. v. Cook

Citations

• 223 Pa. 158
• 72 A. 345
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 496

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Equity practice — Responsive answer — Evidence—Purchase of stock.</p> <p>Where a bill in equity is filed by a partnership against a clerk in its employ to compel the transfer of certain shares of stock alleged to have been purchased by the defendant with moneys furnished by the plaintiffs, and the defendant files an answer denying that he had ever agreed to purchase the stock for plaintiffs, and avers that the moneys paid to him were moneys due him by the plaintiffs, and such responsive answer is met only by the uncorroborated testimony of one of the partners, the bill will be dismissed.</p>