Johnson v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court at Nisi Prius in Equity: No. 38, to January Term 1864. This was a bill by J. Warner Johnson and others, stockholders of The West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company against the City of Philadelphia, Greorge W. Schofield, Commissioner of Highways of the city, the said railway company and William Martin, Jr., its treasurer.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court at Nisi Prius in Equity: No. 38, to January Term 1864. This was a bill by J. Warner Johnson and others, stockholders of The West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company against the City of Philadelphia, Greorge W. Schofield, Commissioner of Highways of the city, the said railway company and William Martin, Jr., its treasurer. The bill was filed January 27th 1864. The bill sets out that the plaintiffs are stockholders in the railway company, which was incorporated May 14th 1857, and its powers extended by Acts of Assembly in the years 1858 and 1859; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by
Sharswood, J.
This is a bill filed by the plaintiffs for themselves and others, stockholders of the West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company, against the said company and the City of Philadelphia, praying that the company may be restrained from paying and the city from receiving or exacting the annual charge of thirty dollars for each car intended to be run on the railway of the said company, under an ordinance of the said city, approved April 1st 1859.
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