Stockett v. Ryan

Citations

• 176 Pa. 71
• 34 A. 973
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1044

Syllabus

<p>Trusts and trustees — Deed of trust — Settlement by man of intemperate habits — Findings of court below — Equity.</p> <p>The findings of a court of common pleas, sitting as a court of equity, that a deed of trust executed voluntarily, without any coercion or undue influence, with a full knowledge of its contents and the legal effect of it, by a man of intemperate habits who was wasting and mismanaging his estate, and who executed it for the purpose of protecting himself and his estate from the consequences of his improvident and intemperate habits, making himself and his children the only beneficiaries, fully justified the decree dismissing the bill for the cancellation of the deed. While the findings are not absolutely binding upon the Supreme Court, yet until error in them is clearly shown they will be allowed to stand.</p>