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WHARTON v. MORRIS

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1 U.S. 125 (1785)

1 Dall. 125

WHARTON et al., versus MORRIS et al.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 1, 1785.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilcocks, Sergeant, and Lewis, for the plaintiffs,

Governeur Morris, Wilson and Ingersol, for the defendants,

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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