Commonwealth v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 15, May T., 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. R. Dauphin Co., commonwealth docket, 1896, No. 881, on case tried without a jury. Appeal from tax settlement.
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Appeal, No. 15, May T., 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. R. Dauphin Co., commonwealth docket, 1896, No. 881, on case tried without a jury. Appeal from tax settlement. The facts appear by the opinion of McPherson, J., which was as follows: This case was tried without a jury under the provisions of the act of 1874. From the evidence offered at the trial and an agreement of the parties, we find the facts to be as follows : 1. The defendant is a corporation of the state of Pennsylvania. During the year 1895 its indebtedness was $33,609,000, consisting of several series of bonds issued at…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mu. Justice Mitchell,
The court below sitting without a jury under the act of 1874, found that the report of the defendant company to the auditor general “was the result of careful, painstaking and diligent inquiry made by the defendant’s officers in order to ascertain the facts contained therein; and these officers discharged their full duty to the commonwealth, and ascertained as nearly as lay in their power the relevant facts concerning the owners of the company’s bonds, and particularly the facts concerning the residence of such owners. There is no evidence to show that the…
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- Commonwealth v. Lehigh Valley RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1883
- Commonwealth v. Lehigh Valley R. Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
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