Louderback v. Warner
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 212, Oct. T., 1906, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. Bucks Co., April T., 1904, No. 24, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Daniel Louderback et al., Trustees of Penns Meadow Company, v. Geo. Warner. Assumpsit to recover assessments by a meadow company. At the trial the court entered a compulsory nonsuit. On a rule to take off the nonsuit, Stout, P. J., filed the following opinion: By Act of assembly approved March 4, 1815, 6 Sm.
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Appeal, No. 212, Oct. T., 1906, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. Bucks Co., April T., 1904, No. 24, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Daniel Louderback et al., Trustees of Penns Meadow Company, v. Geo. Warner. Assumpsit to recover assessments by a meadow company. At the trial the court entered a compulsory nonsuit. On a rule to take off the nonsuit, Stout, P. J., filed the following opinion: By Act of assembly approved March 4, 1815, 6 Sm. L. 257, Robert Crozier and ten others, and their successors, were declared a body corporate under the name of “The Penns Manor Meadow Company,” to…
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Rice, P. J.,
By the Act of March 4, 1815, 6 Sm. L. 257, it was enacted that certain persons, who were named in the act, “and their successors,” be a body politic and corporate in law and in fact by the name, style and title of The Penn’s Manor Meadow Company. By the express terms of the act it was to continue in force for forty years and no longer, but by the Act of April 30, 1855, P. L. (1857) 738, it was revived and extended for the period of twenty years thereafter, and in addition to the corporators named in the act of 1815 other persons, who were named, “and their successors ”…
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