Valley Rys. v. Mechanicsburg Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 217, Jan. T., 1919, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Cumberland Co., June T., 1914, No. 1, dismissing bill in equity in case of Valley Railways y. Mechanicsburg Borough. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before McPherson, P. J., specially presiding. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was decree dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This bill in equity was filed to restrain the defendant borough from the collection of a certain annual amount fixed by ordinance as the consideration for the occupation of streets. The case was heard upon bill, answer, replication and testimony. The Cumberland Valley Electric Passenger Railway Company was chartered in 1893, as a Pennsylvania corporation, and in 1900, by a franchise ordinance (No. 133), the defendant borough granted the company the right to occupy certain designated streets, upon conditions therein named, one of which was, “That said railway…
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- Allegheny City v. People's Natural Gas & Pipeage Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Cameron v. City of CarbondaleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
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