Shamokin & Coal Township Light & Power Co. v. John
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 224, Oct. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., No. 239, in equity, on bill in equity, in case of Shamokin & Coal Township Light & Power Company v. Agnes I. John, Agnes I. John, Widow and Executrix of U. F. John Deceased, Samuel John and Albert E. Hughes. Bill in equity for an injunction to restrain the taking down of electric light poles. The case was heard on bill, answer and proofs.
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Appeal, No. 224, Oct. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., No. 239, in equity, on bill in equity, in case of Shamokin & Coal Township Light & Power Company v. Agnes I. John, Agnes I. John, Widow and Executrix of U. F. John Deceased, Samuel John and Albert E. Hughes. Bill in equity for an injunction to restrain the taking down of electric light poles. The case was heard on bill, answer and proofs. The court filed an opinion together with answers to requests for findings of fact and law, and also the following decree: 'And now, to wit: September 21, 1901, after…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The trial of cases in equity is regulated by rules promulgated by the Supreme Court, which have the force of a statute. They cannot be suspended by the court of common pleas, nor can that court adopt others inconsistent therewith: Gibbons’s Appeal, 104 Pa. 687. The procedure therein prescribed is simple, easily understood and well calculated to secure an expeditious determination of the case in the trial court and a review in the appellate court of the precise questions in controversy. Where this procedure has been departed from in material particulars and objection is…
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