Wright v. Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of ejectment, brought November 10th 1859, by John A. Wright against the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company, for so much of two lots of ground as is covered by the railroad which leads from the tunnel head of the Shawnee Iron Works to the Susquehanna river.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of ejectment, brought November 10th 1859, by John A. Wright against the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company, for so much of two lots of ground as is covered by the railroad which leads from the tunnel head of the Shawnee Iron Works to the Susquehanna river. The plaintiff claimed title to the lot as the vendee of the sheriff of Lancaster county, by whom they were sold under an execution against Archibald Wright, to whom they had been conveyed, December 10th 1855, by Bhoda, Charles M., and Elizabeth Wright. The defendants claimed as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by
THOMPSON, J.
The question involved in this controversy is whether the entire railway, with its inclined plane to the tunnel heads of the defendant’s furnace stacks, and extending to the Susquehanna river a distance of about 1100 yards, in use in connection with the Shawnee Iron Works at the time of the levy and sale, passed by that sale under the circumstances disclosed.
The circumstances were briefly these: — Between the ground and adjoining lots on which the company’s furnaces stand, and the river lot, there are two intervening lots, the roadway over…
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- Oakley v. StanleyNew York Supreme Court · 1830
- Buckholder v. SiglerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
- Grubb v. GuilfordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1835
- Inman v. KutzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840
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