Sterling's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county: In Equity. Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 179. This was an appeal by Hugh Sterling from a decree of said court sustaining a demurrer to his bill, and dismissing his bill. The bill, as originally filed, was by Hugh Sterling and Sarah J. Sterling, his wife, against the Chartiers Valley Gas Company, of Allegheny Comity, Pa., and Patch and Robbins.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county: In Equity. Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 179. This was an appeal by Hugh Sterling from a decree of said court sustaining a demurrer to his bill, and dismissing his bill. The bill, as originally filed, was by Hugh Sterling and Sarah J. Sterling, his wife, against the Chartiers Valley Gas Company, of Allegheny Comity, Pa., and Patch and Robbins. By amendments made and allowed after the’ bill was filed, the name of Sarah J. Sterling was stricken out and the Cecil Township Natural Gas Company was substituted for the Chartiers…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
*39After averring in his bill that he is the owner in fee of certain lands therein described, appellant charges, in substance, that in disregard of notice not to enter said lands without first making or securing compensation, the company appellee is about to lay a pipe line, for the transportation of natural gas under a public road traversing said lands; that said pipe iine “will run along the public road within four feet of a board fence, pass between the house and barn.....within fifty feet of each, and if completed will do appellant great and irreparable injury,” etc. The specific relief…
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