Hannum v. Borough of West Chester
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Chester county: No 152, to July Term 1869. The proceedings below were commenced by petition by the plaintiff for the assessment of damages sustained by him by the diversion of water from a creek running through his premises by the defendant.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Chester county: No 152, to July Term 1869. The proceedings below were commenced by petition by the plaintiff for the assessment of damages sustained by him by the diversion of water from a creek running through his premises by the defendant. The water was taken by the borough under the authority of an Act of Assembly of April 16th 1838, by which the borough was authorized to purchase any water-power, and take any stream of water or land to which such stream may he appertenant, for the purpose of introducing water into the. borough. For such taking the act provides…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 31st 1870, by
Sharswood, J. —
The Act of March 27th 1713, 1 Smith 76, for limitation of actions, copied from 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, includes in its enumeration all forms of personal actions in use, but it provided *478that the time should be reckoned from the cause of action or suit, and not after. Hence most probably the construction, which has been uniformly received, that it is not the form, but tbe cause of action which is to be considered: and it may be stated as a general rule that wherever the cause of action is such as would be subject to the bar…
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