President for erecting a Bridge over the River Lehigh v. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This case, which came before the court on an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Lehigh County, held by Huston J., in April, 1832, originated in a petition presented by the plaintiffs, to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, on the 11th of September, 1830, for a venire under the acts of assembly of 20th of March, 1818, entitled “ An act to improve the navigation of the river Lehigh” {Pam.
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This case, which came before the court on an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Lehigh County, held by Huston J., in April, 1832, originated in a petition presented by the plaintiffs, to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, on the 11th of September, 1830, for a venire under the acts of assembly of 20th of March, 1818, entitled “ An act to improve the navigation of the river Lehigh” {Pam. Laws, 197,) and of 13th February, 1822, entitled “ An act to incorporate the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company,” {Pam. Laws, 21.) The' plaintiffs were incorporated by the act of 28th of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
As the cause is to go to another jury, it is necessary to determine all the points; and haply they are not attended with difficulty. The legislature evidently meant to provide for nothing that was not remediable at'the common law; and on the other hand, it was intended that every common law injury should be redressed by the statutory remedy. A corporation then must be let into the benefit of it, or be left without redress; so that taking an artificial person not to be within the letter of the act, it is clearly within the equity of it, and…
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