Pusey v. Wright
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal in Equity from the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was a bill in equity originally exhibited by Jonathan Pusey against Archibald Wright and John Wright, and Thomas S. Richards, their agent and manager, praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from using a certain lateral railroad constructed by them over the complainant’s land, from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the Shawnee Furnace owned by the said Archibald and John Wright, until they should have…
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Appeal in Equity from the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was a bill in equity originally exhibited by Jonathan Pusey against Archibald Wright and John Wright, and Thomas S. Richards, their agent and manager, praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from using a certain lateral railroad constructed by them over the complainant’s land, from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the Shawnee Furnace owned by the said Archibald and John Wright, until they should have complied with the terms of the contract under which the said railroad was constructed. Jonathan Pusey died, pending the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
The heirs of Jonathan Pusey, deceased, were substituted as plaintiffs in this case, the bill having been filed in his lifetime.
The bill sets forth that an agreement was entered into between Jonathan Pusey and the defendants, by which the former granted to the latter a right to construct a private railroad through his property in the borough of Columbia, consisting of a lot of about seven *393acres, from their furnaces, situate above his property, on Shawnee Creek, so as to enable them to connect their road with the Columbia Railroad below him;…
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