WHARTON v. MORRIS


1 U.S. 125 (1785)

1 Dall. 125

WHARTON et al. versus MORRIS et al.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilcocks, Sergeant, and Lewis, for the plaintiffs.


M'KEAN, Chief Justice delivered a circumstantial and learned charge to the Jury.

He said, that the want of a Court with equitable powers, like those of the Chancery in England, had long been felt in Pennsylvania. The institution of such a Court, he observed, had once been agitated here; but the houses of Assembly, antecedent to the revolution, successfully opposed it; because they were apprehensive of encreasing, by that means, the power and influence

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