FLOOD, J., September 12, 1952.
Plaintiff's bill seeks specific performance of an oral promise to give a mortgage on defendants' home as security for loans made by plaintiff in the amount of $2,000. Defendants filed preliminary objections interposing the statute of frauds as to realty: Act of March 21, 1772, 1 Sm. L. 389, 33 PS § 1.
Thus is raised a question which has never been directly decided in any reported case in Pennsylvania: whether the statute...
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