Baltimore & Ohio R. R. v. Wilson Snyder Mfg. Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 126, Oct. T., 1923, by plaintiffs, from decree of. C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1912, No. 2652, dismissing bill in equity, in case of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. et al. v. Wilson Snyder Mfg. Co., and Denny Brereton et al., surviving Trustees under will of Mary E. Schenley, deceased, and John Moerlein et al., and Bovaird v. Seyfang Mfg.
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Appeal, No. 126, Oct. T., 1923, by plaintiffs, from decree of. C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1912, No. 2652, dismissing bill in equity, in case of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. et al. v. Wilson Snyder Mfg. Co., and Denny Brereton et al., surviving Trustees under will of Mary E. Schenley, deceased, and John Moerlein et al., and Bovaird v. Seyfang Mfg. Co. Bill in equity to restrain closing of First Avenue, formerly Front Street, between Ross Street and Try Street in, the City of Pittsburgh. Before Swearingen, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The following plan shows the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Sadler,
In 1809, James O’Hara was the owner of certain land, now a part of Pittsburgh, and this he plotted into lots, which were designated by numbers on a plan showing their respective locations, and having marked thereon certain open spaces for use as streets and avenues. This paper was never recorded, though a copy was filed in the city’s bureau of surveys and the recorder’s office of Allegheny County about 1830. On it are marked as highways Ross and Try Streets, and certain cross road*222ways, extensions of those of the city then existing, including Front, now called…
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