Appeal of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 290. Bill in equity between the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Company, complainant, and the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad Company, defendant.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 290. Bill in equity between the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Company, complainant, and the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad Company, defendant. The prayer of the bill was for an injunction to restrain the company defendant from constructing or laying its tracks upon certain land of the company complainant, or, in the alternative, for an injunction to restrain said company defendant from so constructing its tracks, until the court should determine upon what terms and conditions, in what…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The right of the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad Company, under its charter and ordinances of the city of Allegheny, to locate and construct its railroad along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, within said city, from the eastern to the western boundary thereof, has been so conclusively shown by the learned master in his able and exhaustive report, that it is unnecessary to add anything to the reasons given or authorities cited in support of that conclusion.
The Pittsburgh, New Castle and Lake Erie Railroad Company, which was succeeded in title by the appellee, was incorporated in September 1877,…
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