Edgewood Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county. In equity. No. 74: Of October and November Term 1875. The bill in this ease was filed June 14th 1878, by The Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb against the Edgewood Railroad Company.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county. In equity. No. 74: Of October and November Term 1875. The bill in this ease was filed June 14th 1878, by The Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb against the Edgewood Railroad Company. The bill set out: 1, 2, 3. That the plaintiffs, an incorporated company, owned ten acres of ground in Wilkins township, Allegheny county, near Edgewood station of the Pennsylvania railroad; that the property was acquired for the erection of suitable buildings for the institution for the deaf and dumb. 4. That…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
No doubt is entertained that at the time of the organization of the Edgewood Railroad Company, the plaintiffs had such title to the land which the defendants have appropriated, as to enable them to maintain this bill. The authorities referred to on the argument fully vindicate the finding of the master on the facts reported.
Yoluminous as this record is, it presents but one significant question for discussion and decision. Can such a railroad as that which the facts found by the master prove the defendants to have built, be maintained under the provisions of the act “to authorize the formation…
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