Appeal of the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county: In Equity : Of October and November Term, 1880, No. 231. Bill in equity, by Bobert M. Modisette, et aL, against the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Bailroad Company. After answer filed, the cause was referred to an examiner and master, to whose report the defendant filed exceptions, which the court, after argument, dismissed, confirming the report, and a decree was entered in favor of the complainants.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county: In Equity : Of October and November Term, 1880, No. 231. Bill in equity, by Bobert M. Modisette, et aL, against the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Bailroad Company. After answer filed, the cause was referred to an examiner and master, to whose report the defendant filed exceptions, which the court, after argument, dismissed, confirming the report, and a decree was entered in favor of the complainants. Among the exceptions thus dismissed was the following: 11 The master erred in not reporting that the complainants have a full,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Creen
The proceeding in this case was a bill in equity, which prayed for an account of moneys received, and which ought to have been received, by the defendant, and for the payment to the plaintiffs of so much thereof as might be found due to them, and also for the ascertainment of damages due for the breach of a contract.
The instrument upon which the proceeding was founded was a contract in writing made between James L. Shaw and the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad Co. It is dated March 6th 1865, and, in substance, it provides that Shaw shall, at his own cost, construct and equip a line of…
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