East Pennsylvania Railroad v. Hiester
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Berks county. This was an appeal to the Common Pleas from the award of a jury appointed to assess the damages, if any, which were sustained by Frederick A. M. Hiester, by reason of the location and construction of the East Pennsylvania Railroad through his farm.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Berks county. This was an appeal to the Common Pleas from the award of a jury appointed to assess the damages, if any, which were sustained by Frederick A. M. Hiester, by reason of the location and construction of the East Pennsylvania Railroad through his farm. The errors assigned, were to the admission and rejection of certain portions of the testimony offered on the trial in the Common Pleas, and to the answer given .by the court below to one of the points presented by the counsel for defendant; all which are set forth in the annexed specifications of error.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, J.
The trial, out of which these specifications of error arise, was originally an appeal by the plaintiff in error from an award of damages by appraisers appointed by the court, on complaint of the defendant, for taking some 7 acres and 94 perches of his land for the use of their road, and for injury to certain crossings over the Reading Railroad, constructed for the use and accommodation of his farm; and being tried in the Common Pleas, this writ of error was taken.
The first and second assignments may be considered together; and they arise…
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