Case ID: pa_270/html/0228-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Salot, Appellant, v. Hechtmann et ux.
    
      Equity—Specific performance—Findings of fact—Appeals.
    
    A chancellor’s findings of fact supported by competent and sufficient evidence, though contradicted, will not be reversed on appeal in the absence of manifest error.
    Argued March 25, 1921.
    Appeal, No. 416, Jan. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1919, No. 1759, dismissing bill in equity, in case of A. Salot v. Joseph A. Hechtmann et ux.
    Before Moschzisker, C. J., Frazer, Walling, Simpson, Sadler and Schaffer, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    Bill in equity for specific performance. Before Shoemaker, J.
    The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts.
    The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed.
    
      Error assigned, among others, was decree, quoting it.
    
      Hugh Roberts, for appellant.
    
      Walter Biddle Saul, of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for appellee.
    April 11, 1921:
   Per Curiam,

Plaintiff filed a bill in equity praying specific performance of a written agreement for the sale to him of a piece of real estate; after hearing, on pleadings and proofs, the bill was dismissed and this appeal followed*

The chancellor found that the earnest money to bind the contract was represented by a $200 check, payment of which was subsequently stopped by plaintiff; and he refused to find, as requested by plaintiff, that this had been done at defendants’ suggestion. Moreover, the chancellor found that plaintiff never tendered another and larger sum, which the latter claims was to be substituted for the check in question. These findings are supported by competent and sufficient, though contradicted, evidence.

The decree is affirmed at cost of appellant.