Wetherill v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 298, Jan. T., 1899, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., March T., ^898, No‘ *B76, 011 in Bill in equity for an injunction to restrain defendants from maintaining fences across Wheatsheaf lane. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court granted the injunction prayed for by the bill. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
On July 2, 1890, the councils of the city of Philadelphia, passed an ordinance authorizing the department of public works (which succeeded to the powers of the former board of surveyors), to revise “parts of the city plans “in such manner as to strike therefrom Wheatsheaf lane, from Coral street to Amber street.” For reasons which do not appear, this ordinance was not carried out until 1897, and in the mean time it had been amended so as to restrict the striking off of Wheatsheaf lane to that portion of it between Amber street and the northern line of the right…
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