Commonwealth v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 11, May T., 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Go., Commonwealth Docket 1902, No. 233, on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Commonwealth v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts-burg Railway Company. Appeal from tax settlement.
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Appeal, No. 11, May T., 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Go., Commonwealth Docket 1902, No. 233, on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Commonwealth v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts-burg Railway Company. Appeal from tax settlement. Weiss, P. J., found the facts to be as follows: 1. The Pittsburg and State Line Railroad Company was incorporated October 23, 1885, in conformity with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1868, P. L. 62, known as the general railroad act, and by it and the supplement thereto of June 4, 1883, P. L. 67, was authorized to increase its…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
This case was argued with Commonwealth v. Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad Company, No. 7, May Term, 1903, and, for the reasons given in the opinion filed in that case, the judgment must be affirmed. Though the merger was of the Pitts-burg and State Line Railroad Company, a Pennsylvania company incorporated under our Act of April 4, 1868,' P. L. 62, with the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad Company, a New York corporation, in section 4 of the Act of March 24, *1621865, P. L. 49, there is a provision similar to that in the act of 1861, by which all the rights,…
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