Legal Opinion

Harris's Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 3, 1888No. 218, E. DPublishedCited by 9 opinions

January Term, 1886, No. 218, E. D. Appeal by Nathaniel 'C. Harris et dl., plaintiffs, from a decree of the Common Pleas •of Bradford County in a suit in equity for an account, etc., in -which the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company et dl., were defendants, September Term, 1880, No. 3. The facts connected with the questions passed upon this appeal ¡sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court below, Morrow, J., which was as follows: A statement of some of the material and…

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January Term, 1886, No. 218, E. D. Appeal by Nathaniel 'C. Harris et dl., plaintiffs, from a decree of the Common Pleas •of Bradford County in a suit in equity for an account, etc., in -which the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company et dl., were defendants, September Term, 1880, No. 3. The facts connected with the questions passed upon this appeal ¡sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court below, Morrow, J., which was as follows: A statement of some of the material and undisputed facts may ¡aid in understanding the case. On the 25th of October, 1865, and for several years prior, ■•the North…

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*245Opinion by

Me. . Justice Paxson :

This case has been twice argued, the second time upon our 'motion, and has been carefully considered. The amount in controversy is large and the testimony voluminous. It occupies over 2,000 printed pages.

There-are sixty-nine assignments of error. The greater portions of-them are to questions of fact. The court below sustained the master, substantially, in his findings of the facts, ■but differed from him in some of his conclusions therefrom. With such a mass of testimony as we have in this case, it is not to be expected that we shall reverse the master upon the…

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