Allison v. Delaware & Schuylkill Canal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI. This case came before the Court upon a certiorari to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the proceedings in a certain suit instituted by Frances Allison against “ The President, Managers and Company of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.”
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CERTIORARI. This case came before the Court upon a certiorari to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the proceedings in a certain suit instituted by Frances Allison against “ The President, Managers and Company of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.” The proceedings in the Court below were commenced under the authority of an act of assembly passed on the 12th day of April, 1828, entitled, “An act to enable the governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company for opening a canal and lock navigation between the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill, through the…
1Per curiam
The exception to the appointment of viewers before the completion of the canal, is disposed of by the Commonwealth v. M‘Allister.
Such of the other exceptions as have been urged, depend on depositions, which we have determined, perhaps after some contrariety of decision in cases of this kind, to be inadmissible; and this ;.s to be taken for the established practice of the Court.
Proceedings affirmed.
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