Is the reputation of a golf course really more important those who were supposedly responsible for its creation.
The reason I ask is that one after another, the great men of Merion are being thrown under the bus by those here who claim they are defending Merion. From these recent threads alone, the communications of Francis, Lloyd, Merion's Board of Governor's, Robert Lesley, and Hugh Wilson himself have all been discarded or ignored. Most recently it is T. Dewitt Cuyler.
Selling real estate in Philadelphia must be even better than staying at the Holiday Inn, because TEPaul thinks he is qualified to unequivocally throw out Cuyler's statement about a 1910-11 transaction that may have involved not only real property law, but also agency law, issues of fiduciary duty, corporate law, conflict of interest, shareholder rights, and partnership law, to name just some of the potential areas at issue.
For the past year, while TEPaul and Wayne were hiding the Cuyler letter, they portrayed Cuyler as a lawyer extraordinaire and one of the most powerful men in the RR industry. But without realizing its significance, TEPaul let a fragment of this letter out and that fragment established that, while Lloyd may have taken the deed to the HDC land in his name, the reality of the situation was that HDC took title in Lloyd's name. In other words, Lloyd was acting on behalf of HDC. Rather than face this fact head on, TEPaul simply threw Cuyler under the bus. Never mind that Cuyler was apparently an experienced attorney who set up the deal, and that was obviously familiar with the transaction, the facts, and the various legal obligitions of the various parties, he doesn't know what he is talking about, at least when compared to Tom Paul. After all, TomPaul sold real estate!
So much for the legal advice of the esteemed T. Dewitt Cuyler, Esq.