Sloan v. Hoyt
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 137, April T., 1909, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Indiana Co., Dec. T., 1908, No. 49, on case stated in suit of Elizabeth Jane Sloan et al. v. Rebecca S. Hoyt. Case stated to determine the ownership of a portion of a fund awarded as damages for taking of land for railroad purposes.
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Appeal, No. 137, April T., 1909, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Indiana Co., Dec. T., 1908, No. 49, on case stated in suit of Elizabeth Jane Sloan et al. v. Rebecca S. Hoyt. Case stated to determine the ownership of a portion of a fund awarded as damages for taking of land for railroad purposes. Before Telford, P. J. In addition to the facts stated in the opinion of the Superior Court it appeared that the land in question descended to Martha Sloan from her father, Thomas N. Sloan. The court entered judgment in favor of the defendant. Error assigned was in entering judgment for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady J.,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in the lifetime of Martha Sloan, who was the admitted owner of certain lands in Indiana county out of which this contest arises, caused a survey to be made of a part of said lands for railroad purposes; the company, by its board of directors at a meeting held on the day of 1906, at Philadelphia, and during the lifetime of Martha Sloan, passed a resolution approving the survey as made, and directed the construction of the railroad tracks thereon for its uses and purposes.
On June 13, 1906, Martha Sloan died intestate and without issue,…
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