Watkins v. Hughes

Citations

• 206 Pa. 526
• 56 A. 22
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 754

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Final decree — Interlocutory decree — Quashing appeal.</p> <p>An order directing a decree to be prepared in accordance with the findings of the trial judge in an equity suit, is not a final decree from which a decree may be taken.</p> <p>The Supreme Court will not proceed even with the consent of the parties, in cases where no judgment or decree has been entered by the court below.</p> <p>Equity — Findings of fact — Appeals—Review.</p> <p>Findings of fact by the trial judge in an equity suit, based upon sufficient evidence, and approved by the court in bane, will not be reversed by the appellate court, except for manifest error.</p> <p>Evidence — Witness—Party dead.</p> <p>Where a party to a suit, otherwise incompetent by reason of the death of another, is called for cross-examination by the adverse party, and examined as to matters occurring in the lifetime of the decedent, he is thereby rendered a competent witness for himself on all relevant matters.</p>