Legal Opinion

Cover v. Hershey Transit Co.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 24, 1927No. Appeal, 33; Appeal, 35PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

The defendant’s electric railway, extending northerly from Elizabethtown to Hershey in Lancaster County, crosses the track of the Cornwall & Lebanon railroad by an overhead bridge, the span of which is seventy-five feet long and is approached on either side by a trestle, that to the south being one hundred and fifty feet in length, and from it the track extends southerly on a fill for two hundred and forty feet. From the south end of the bridge to the south end of the fill, a distance of three hundred and ninety feet, the track is on a 4% per cent descending…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Howarth v. Adams Express Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  2. Gillespie v. McGowanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1882
  3. Collins v. South Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
  4. Petrowski v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
  5. Dattola Et Ux. v. Burt Bros., Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Evans v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
  2. Wilson v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
  3. Frederick v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939
  4. Peden v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  5. Goldberg v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929

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