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SIMPSON v. SIMPSON

404 Pa. 247 (1961)

Simpson v. Simpson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 26, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Stein, with him Josephine H. Klein, and Berger & Stein, for appellant.

Joseph Head, with him Theodore H. Lunine, and Swartz, Campbell & Henry, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, June 26, 1961:

This is an action in equity which, like Pope's needless alexandrine, has dragged its slow length along for fourteen years. After such time the integrity of the law itself is in jeopardy, and we will not seek for niceties to impugn the maxim that it is in the interest of the public that litigation shall cease: Sellers v. Hanratty, 343 Pa. 316 (1941), 22 A.2d 697.

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