New Brighton & New Castle Railroad v. Pittsburgh, Youngstown & Chicago Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county: In Equity: Of October Term, 1883, No. 217. Also Certiorari to said. Court: Of October Term, 1884, Ho. 15. These two cases were argued together.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county: In Equity: Of October Term, 1883, No. 217. Also Certiorari to said. Court: Of October Term, 1884, Ho. 15. These two cases were argued together. The first was a bill in equity filed by The Pittsburgh, Youngstown & Chicag’o Railroad Company, plaintiffs, against the' New Brighton & New Castle Railroad Company, defendants, praying that the. defendant company might be restrained from taking ¡aossession of a certain surveyed line for a railroad, which was claimed by the plaintiffs, and from delaying the plaintiffs in the completion of their…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
Appeal, No. 217, October Term, 1883.
For the purposes of this case it may be assumed that each of the companies litigant is authorized by its charter to locate, construct and operate a railroad along the Big Beaver river between certain points in the counties of Beaver and Lawrence. la tlio proper exercise of that right, as they claim, the companies each surveyed, marked and determined the location of their respective roads, but the locations thus ascertained and determined by them respectively so interfere with each other, that at certain points they are substantially identical, and at other…
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