Pittsburgh v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, No. 134,135,140,141,142,143,144, and 158, Oct. T., 1918, by defendants, from decree of O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan.
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Appeals, No. 134,135,140,141,142,143,144, and 158, Oct. T., 1918, by defendants, from decree of O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1917, No. 2045, in equity, directing removal of obstructions from a public street, in case of City of Pittsburgh v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company, South Side Gas Com- ' pany, Julia E. McClure, wife of Thomas McClure, United States Glass Company, John Eichleay, Jr., Company, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Ormsby Land Company, Oliver O. Phillips et al., Iron City Sand Company, National Tube Company, Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Pittsburgh, McKeesport &…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This bill in equity was filed to secure the removal of encroachments upon an alleged public street. The case was heard upon the bill, answer, replication and testimony. The main question was the existence of the street known as South Water street, between Seventeenth and Twenty-sixth streets, Pittsburgh, and that depended largely upon documentary evidence. Many years ago Oliver Ormsby owned the eastern part and John Ormsby the western part of a tract of some 350 acres of land situate on the south bank of the Monongahela river in what is now the City of…
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