Freeland v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 112,, Jan. T., 1900, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Perry Co., April T., 1899, No. 5, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Charles Freeland and George W. Freeland v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Trespass for loss of sand bank and alluvium. Before Lyons, P. J. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 112,, Jan. T., 1900, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Perry Co., April T., 1899, No. 5, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Charles Freeland and George W. Freeland v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Trespass for loss of sand bank and alluvium. Before Lyons, P. J. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Plaintiff’s points among others were as follows: 2. That the plaintiffs, being the owners in fee of the messuage situate in the township of Howe, Perry county, and described in the plaintiffs’ statement, one boundary of which being the Juniata river…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Brown,
The plaintiffs are riparian owners along the Juniata river, in Perry county. Their land, consisting of a farm of about 100 acres, is located on the north bank of the river, which naturally approaches it in a sort of semicircle form. The flow of the water, as it comes down towards this land, is southeast, until it reaches the apex of the bend, where, before the wrong complained of, it was deflected to the northeast, and then passed eastward along plaintiffs’ property. Before the construction of the embankment by the appellant on the south bank of the river, which…
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