Case Name: Anastasi Brothers Corporation, to use, Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1935-02-04
Citations: 317 Pa. 319
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 350
Parties: Anastasi Brothers Corporation, to use, Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities.
Judges: Before Fkazer, C. J,, Simpson, Drew and Linn, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 317
Pages: 319–320

Head Matter:
Anastasi Brothers Corporation, to use, Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities.
Argued January 17, 1935.
Before Fkazer, C. J,, Simpson, Drew and Linn, JJ.
February 4, 1935:
Thomas F. Mount, with him Joseph W. Henderson, of Ramie <& Henderson, for appellant.
Morris Wolf, with him Philip Werner Amram, of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Gohen, for appellee.

Opinion:
Pee Cueiam,
This appeal is from judgment for defendant in an action in assumpsit to recover damages for breach of an alleged trust agreement. The case was tried by a judge without a jury under the Act of April 22,1874, P. L. 109. On a careful examination of the record, we find competent, credible evidence to sustain the findings of the trial judge that plaintiff entered into a subsequent oral agreement (with the Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York) which made it impossible for defendants to carry out the trust agreement and by virtue of which plaintiff has no standing to complain of failure to do so.
The findings of fact and conclusions of law of a judge hearing a ease without a jury are entitled to the same weight and effect on appeal as is the verdict of a jury: Armstrong Co. v. Rearic, 315 Pa. 133. Accordingly,
The judgment of the court below is affirmed.