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Ohio River Junction Railroad Company's Petition

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 6, 1908No. Appeal, No. 139PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal, No. 139, Oct. T., 1907, by the Pennsylvania Company, lessee of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, from order of C. P. Beaver Co., Sept. T., 1903, No. 186, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers In re Petition of the Ohio River Junction Railroad Company for connecting with the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway. Exceptions to report of viewers. Before Bouton, P. J., specially presiding.

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Appeal, No. 139, Oct. T., 1907, by the Pennsylvania Company, lessee of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, from order of C. P. Beaver Co., Sept. T., 1903, No. 186, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers In re Petition of the Ohio River Junction Railroad Company for connecting with the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway. Exceptions to report of viewers. Before Bouton, P. J., specially presiding. For the facts see the opinion of the Supreme Court and Ohio River Junction Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania Company, 216 Pa. 316. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stewart,

This was a proceeding begun by petition of the Ohio River Junction Railroad Company, a corporation chartered under the railroad law of 1868, and operating a line of railroad extending from a point in the township of New Sewickley, in the county of Beaver, to the tracks of the Pittsburg, Port Wayne & Chicago Railway Company, in the township of Economy, in the same county., for the appointment of viewers to fix and determine the terms and manner of a proposed connection of the former with the latter road. The answer filed to this petition by the Pittsburg, Fort…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ohio River Junction Railroad v. Pennsylvania Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. North Shore Railroad v. Pennsylvania Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1916
  2. North Shore Railroad v. Pennsylvania Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  3. Holt v. Pennsylvania Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  4. Park v. HinesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1927

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