Wyoming Coal & Transportation Co. v. Price
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of July Term 1874, No. 124. This was an action of assumpsit brought November 6th 1872, by Eli K. Price against The Wyoming Coal and Transportation. Company.
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• Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of July Term 1874, No. 124. This was an action of assumpsit brought November 6th 1872, by Eli K. Price against The Wyoming Coal and Transportation. Company. On the 8th of August 1848 James Hancock conveyed to the plaintiff two pieces of land in Wilkesbarre township, Luzerne county, one of them “ beginning at a corner in the line of lot No. 36, &c., on the northwest side of the Pennsylvania canal, thence from the towing-path of said canal on the line of said lot No. 36, north, &e., 160 perches to the Susquehanna river, thence by the Susquehanna…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
The first six errors assigned will be considered together. They involve the question whether the defendant in error owned the land and coal under the canal. If the question was a new one, untrammelled by previous decisions, I should feel disposed to answer it in the affirmative. If, however, the authorities have settled it otherwise, we must assent to them as the true exposition of the law. A reference to the legislation leading to the construction of the Pennsylvania canals, will show that they were all parts of one general system, designed at the commencement.
By the Act of 27th March 1824,…
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