Case Name: Froio et ux. v. Armstrong et al., Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1923-03-19
Citations: 277 Pa. 26
Docket Number: No. 2; Appeal, No. 234
Parties: Froio et ux. v. Armstrong et al., Appellant
Judges: Before Frazer, Walling, Simpson, Sadler and Schaefer, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 277
Pages: 26–27

Head Matter:
Froio et ux. v. Armstrong et al., Appellant
(No. 2).
Principal and agent — Fraud—Secret profit — Equity.
A decree for plaintiffs on a suit for an accounting will be affirmed where it appears that plaintiffs employed defendant as agent to buy a property, that defendant fraudulently bought the property for himself and then resold it to plaintiffs at an advance.
Argued February 6, 1923.
March 19, 1923:
Appeal, No. 234, Jan. T., 1923, by Armstrong, defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., March T., 1921, No. 7089, for plaintiffs on bill in equity in case of Joseph Froio and Angelina Froio v. William H. Armstrong and Henry H. Hall.
Before Frazer, Walling, Simpson, Sadler and Schaefer, JJ.
Affirmed.
The facts appear in the preceding case.
Defendant, Armstrong, appealed.
Edward Hopkinson, Jr., for appellant.
Francis B. Bracken, with him Arthur Littleton, for appellees.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaffer,
We have reviewed the material facts on this appeal in the preceding case, in which the defendant, Henry H. Hall, was appellant.
There is no merit in any of the contentions advanced by Armstrong, the appellant here. He was guilty of a gross fraud, both on the plaintiffs and Hall.
The decree of tbe court below as to tbe defendant, William H. Armstrong, is affirmed, with directions to tbe court below to enter sucb additional decree in favor of tbe plaintiffs and against tbe defendant, William H. Armstrong, as will direct and require bim to pay to plaintiffs sucb further sum of money as will reimburse them for all losses they shall have sustained, or may sustain, by reason of tbe fraudulent acts of tbe said Armstrong, including therein all money which they shall pay, or be required to pay, to Henry H. Hall, on account of, or by reason of, tbe bonds and mortgages executed by them to tbe said Henry H. Hall, and that tbe said William H. Armstrong pay all costs.