City of Johnstown v. Johnstown & Stony Creek R. R.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 32, Oct. T., 1919, by Johnstown and Stony Creek Railroad Company, from order of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Complaint Docket No. 1356, regulating a -railroad crossing in the case of City of Johnstown, y. Johnstown & Stony.Creek Railroad Company & (Johnstown Traction Company). Petition of city of Johnstown for order regulating grade crossing at Messenger Street in the City of Johns-town.
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Appeal, No. 32, Oct. T., 1919, by Johnstown and Stony Creek Railroad Company, from order of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Complaint Docket No. 1356, regulating a -railroad crossing in the case of City of Johnstown, y. Johnstown & Stony.Creek Railroad Company & (Johnstown Traction Company). Petition of city of Johnstown for order regulating grade crossing at Messenger Street in the City of Johns-town. The Public Service Commission ordered the installation of crossing gates and the maintenance of a watchman and divided the cost of construction and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
The City of Johnstown made complaint to the Public Service Commission concerning conditions occasioned by the tracks of the Johnstown & Stony Creek Railroad Company et al. crossing certain streets in said city at grade. After a hearing the commission ordered, inter alia, the appellant to construct gates and maintain a watchman at the crossing of Messenger Street over the tracks of the said company and the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and that the cost of construction and maintenance be borne equally by the two companies. The appellant appealed from so…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Johnstown v. Johnstown & Stony Creek RailroadSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
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- Borough of Marcus Hook v. Public Service CommissionSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1925