Commonwealth v. Shapiro
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 146, April T., 1909, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1907, No. 154, in case stated in suit of Commonwealth to use of Chartiers Township School District v. Harry Shapiro. Case stated on appeal from judgment of a justice of the peace. Before Taylor, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was in entering judgment for plaintiff on case stated.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
So far as this case relates to the defendant’s traveling- over the private ways for the single purpose of delivering to the premises, to which the ways were appurtenant, goods which had been ordered by tenants of the premises, it is like the case of Commonwealth v. Burford, 38 Pa. Superior Ct. 201, excepting in this particular: in that case the written leases under which the tenants held contained no reference to any public or private way, whereas the leases involved in the present case each contained a covenant relative to the use of the private ways. But for that…
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