Carlisle & Mechanicsburg Street Railway Company's Appeal
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 21, March T., 1913, by Carlisle & Mechanicsburg Street Railway Company, from order of Q. S. Cumberland Co., Sept. Sessions, 1911, No. 376, dismissing appeal from borough ordinance in Appeal of Carlisle & Mechanicsburg Street Railway Company. Appeal from ordinance of the borough of Mechanics-burg. The opinion of the Superior Court states the casé. Error assigned was in dismissing the appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The borough of Mechanicsburg was incorporated by the special Act of April 12, 1828, 10 Sm. Laws 150, and by appropriate action became subject to the general borough act of April 3, 1851, P. L. 320. The Cumberland Valley Electric Passenger Railway Co. was duly incorporated, on September 11, 1893, under the provisions of the act of May 14, 1889, P. L. 211, and the supplements thereof, by the commonwealth qf- Pennsylvania, to construct a street railway from the borough of Car-lisle to and through the borough of Mechanicsburg, and having obtained the consent of the local…
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- Plymouth Township v. Chestnut Hill & Norristown RailwaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Minersville Borough v. Schuylkill Electric Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
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