Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad v. Jones
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 150. Action on the case brought by T. C. Jones and Carrie V., his wife, in the right of and for use of the said Carrie Y. Jones against the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff by reason of the building of the defendants’ railroad.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 150. Action on the case brought by T. C. Jones and Carrie V., his wife, in the right of and for use of the said Carrie Y. Jones against the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff by reason of the building of the defendants’ railroad. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff Carrie V. Jones was the owner of the William McKee Ferry over the Ohio river, that to successfully carry it on the plaintiff had in her possession a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
The Act of April 16th, 1863, vested in William McKee .the right to maintain a public steam' ferry over the river Ohio, from where his landing was at the date of the Act, near Saw *211Mill Run, in West Pittsburgh, to his landing at the termination of Ohartier street in the city of Allegheny, with exclusive right to said landings, and the river between the same as a public ferry; and all persons are prohibited from using said river for the purpose of a ferry within three hundred yards above and three hundred yards below said landings. This right is said to be now vested in the plaintiff.
It is plain…
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