Borough of Sunbury v. Sunbury & Susquehanna Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 183, Jan. T., 1913, by the Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Co., from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., No. 374, In Equity, awarding an injunction, in case of the Borough of Sunbury v. the Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Co., the Sunbury and Selinsgrove Electric Railway Co., the Northumberland County Traction Co., the Sunbury, Lewisburg and Milton Railway Co., and W. H. Greenough, President, and Boyd A. Musser, Secretary.
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Appeal, No. 183, Jan. T., 1913, by the Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Co., from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., No. 374, In Equity, awarding an injunction, in case of the Borough of Sunbury v. the Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Co., the Sunbury and Selinsgrove Electric Railway Co., the Northumberland County Traction Co., the Sunbury, Lewisburg and Milton Railway Co., and W. H. Greenough, President, and Boyd A. Musser, Secretary. Bill in equity for an injunction to restrain defendants from laying rails in certain of plaintiff’s streets. Before Moser, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
The Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Co. is a Pennsylvania corporation formed by the merger and consolidation of several other railway companies, some of which are named with it as defendants in this case. In improving its lines this company undertook to make connections and lay its rails upon certain highways in the plaintiff borough without having first secured a permit from the municipal authorities. The work was commenced on a day when the judges of the Court of Common Pleas were absent from the county, and a bill in equity praying for an injunction was…
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