Hannum v. Media, Middletown, Aston & Chester Electric Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 310, Jan. T., 1900, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Del. Co., Sept. T., 1899, No. 196, dissolving injunction in case of John B. Hannum v. Media, Middletown, Aston and Chester Electric Railway Company and the Philadelphia, Morton and Swarthmore Street Railway Company. Bill in equity for an injunction.
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Appeal, No. 310, Jan. T., 1900, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Del. Co., Sept. T., 1899, No. 196, dissolving injunction in case of John B. Hannum v. Media, Middletown, Aston and Chester Electric Railway Company and the Philadelphia, Morton and Swarthmore Street Railway Company. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Johnson, P. J. From the record it appeared that the Media, Middletown, Aston and Chester Electric Railway Company was incorporated to construct an electric railway from a point in the township of Middletown to the boundary of the city of Chester. By virtue of certain…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
Appellant is a landowner in the city of Chester, and filed this bill to enjoin the defendants from constructing a street railway tract in front of his house. He set out in his bill that the charter route of the defendants did not include any part of the city of Chester, and that no part of the charter route had been constructed, both of which averments are conceded to be true; further that no complete authority to construct even the charter route had been acquired; that certain extensions had been adopted by the Media, etc., Company under which the attempted…
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