City of Philadelphia ex rel. Pugh v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 5, Nov. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., March T., 1895, No. 139, M. L. D., for want of sufficient affidavit of defense. Sci. fa. sur claim $779.36 for sewer on Richmond street in front of lot of ground on southeast corner Richmond and William streets.
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Appeal No. 5, Nov. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., March T., 1895, No. 139, M. L. D., for want of sufficient affidavit of defense. Sci. fa. sur claim $779.36 for sewer on Richmond street in front of lot of ground on southeast corner Richmond and William streets. The affidavit of defense alleged inter alia as follows : The said large tract of land is the terminus of the main line of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in the city of Philadelphia. The said railroad company was incorporated by act of assembly, approved April 4, 1833. In the latter part of the…
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Rice, P. J.,. The lien in question was filed against a lot owned by the defendant company, in fee, at the corner of Richmond and William streets, containing in front, on Richmond street, five hundred and fifty-five feet, and extending in depth southeasterly, along William street, to the Port-Warden’s line in the Delaware river.
The lot is part of a larger tract extending from Cumberland to William street, and from Richmond street to the Delaware river, and containing in front, on Richmond street, in the neighborhood of twenty-eight hundred feet. It is described in the affidavit of…
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