Wadhams v. Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Luzerne county. This was an action of ejectment, brought January 1st 1857, by Samuel Wadhams against The Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad Company, to recover possession of seventy-six and six-tenths perches of land in Plymouth township, occupied by a portion of the road of defendant. In 1852 an Act of Assembly was passed, and in March 1853 a charter ivas obtained incorporating the Lackawanna and Blooms-burg Railroad Company.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Luzerne county. This was an action of ejectment, brought January 1st 1857, by Samuel Wadhams against The Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad Company, to recover possession of seventy-six and six-tenths perches of land in Plymouth township, occupied by a portion of the road of defendant. In 1852 an Act of Assembly was passed, and in March 1853 a charter ivas obtained incorporating the Lackawanna and Blooms-burg Railroad Company. Sometime in the year 1854 a survey was made for the location of the railroad, but precisely when it was made, or by whom, does not appear.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, April 21st 1862, by
Strong, J.
The objections urged against the charge of .the' court in this case are hypercritical in a supereminent degree. They indicate clearly that whatever other object the plaintiff in error may have in view, he is not now seeking compensation for an injury received. Technical and formal, not affecting in the least the merits of his controversy with the defendants, if sustained they could not further the ends of-justice, or benefit the plaintiff himself.
It is first contended that the bond of the defendants and their sureties was…
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