Commissioners of District of Spring Garden v. Commissioners of Inc. District of Northern Liberties
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This case came before the court in pursuance of an act of the Legislature passed on the 12th day of April, 1828, (Pamphlet Laws, 356;) reciting that by an act passed on the 16th of April, 1819, certain wharves and landing places in the incorporated district of the Northern Liberties, were vested in the commissioners thereof, and that it had been represented to the Legislature that the control and benefit of the said wharves, &c. ought not to be exclusively in the said…
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This case came before the court in pursuance of an act of the Legislature passed on the 12th day of April, 1828, (Pamphlet Laws, 356;) reciting that by an act passed on the 16th of April, 1819, certain wharves and landing places in the incorporated district of the Northern Liberties, were vested in the commissioners thereof, and that it had been represented to the Legislature that the control and benefit of the said wharves, &c. ought not to be exclusively in the said commissioners, and therefore providing that it should be lawful for the commissioners and inhabitants of the Kensington…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The proceeding has been instituted in this case, under a special act of the legislature, passed the 12th of April, 1828, for the purpose of having it enquired into and determined by this court, whether or not the complainants have a right to any part or portion of the value or income of the public wharf or landing place, called the hay scale landing, and the public wharf or landing on the south of and adjoining Callowhill Street, which lie within the incorporated district of the Northern Liberties, and are held in trust by the board of…
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