Norris's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 141J, to January Term 1870. On the 14th of May 1859, George W. Norris and Mary P. his wife (late Fisher), in her right and others, filed a bill against the City of Philadelphia, Samuel Morris and others.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 141J, to January Term 1870. On the 14th of May 1859, George W. Norris and Mary P. his wife (late Fisher), in her right and others, filed a bill against the City of Philadelphia, Samuel Morris and others. The bill set out these facts: The plaintiffs were and for- some time had been seised of a tract of land in Philadelphia, — which the bill described, — bounded on the east by the river Delaware, and partly by land of the defendants. The defendants’ title was under the will of Samuel B. Morris, who directed improvements to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
— The Act of Assembly of April 15th 1858, Pamph. L. 267, and the supplement thereto of April 5th 1859, Pamph. L. 359, upon which the bill filed in the court below is professedly based, are confined in their operation to the county of Philadelphia. It is a sample of the local legislation, unhappily, it seems, becoming popular — at least very much on the increase of late years, and which threatens to destroy by degrees all uniformity in our laws; so that a different system of rights and remedies will take root and grow up in each separate…
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