Good Intent Co. v. Hartzell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. This was a foreign attachment in case, issued August 16, 1851, in the name of David Hartzell, Superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Cumberland Road in the State of Pennsylvania, v. Thomas Shriver and others, named as partners under the name and style of the Grood Intent Stage Company. The object of the proceeding was to recover an amount for toll on stages and passengers passing along the Cumberland Road.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. This was a foreign attachment in case, issued August 16, 1851, in the name of David Hartzell, Superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Cumberland Road in the State of Pennsylvania, v. Thomas Shriver and others, named as partners under the name and style of the Grood Intent Stage Company. The object of the proceeding was to recover an amount for toll on stages and passengers passing along the Cumberland Road. Soon after a portion of the Cumberland Road was ceded to Pennsylvania, difficulties arose between the officers of the road and certain…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
By the 16th section of the act of 1845, relative to the Cumberland Road, the commissioner of the road is authorized to contract with the owners of a line of coaches for tolls in a gross sum, by the month, quarter, or year. Two stage companies were running over the road in 1845, and for some years afterwards,’ namely, the Good Intent Stage Company and the'National Road Stage Company. They jointly contracted with the commissioner for leave to run all their coaches through all the gates in Pennsylvania, at the gross sum of $11,000 per annum,…
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