Legal Opinion

Brown v. Pennsylvania Canal Co.

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided February 8, 1916No. 677PublishedCited by 14 opinions

In Equity. Suit by Alice Francis Brown against the Pennsylvania Canal Company and others. On trial hearing on bill, answer, and proofs. Decree for plaintiff.

1Opinion of the Court

DICKINSON, District Judge.

The questions raised and argued out in this case, so far as they call for discussion at the present time, are involved in the relations of the parties growing out of the transactions in which they were engaged, the proper construction of the contracts, in which they all had part, and the legal consequences of other litigation, to which they or some of them were parties.

A history of the transactions out of which this controversy has grown might well begin with the fact that the state of Pennsylvania *446made over to the railroad company bearing its name certain property…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Rea v. Pennsylvania Canal Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. United States v. KleinSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Overfield v. Pennroad CorporationDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1941
  3. Pennsylvania Canal Co. v. BrownCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1916
  4. S. G. V. Co. v. S. G. V. Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
  5. Brown v. Pennsylvania R.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1918

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