Spring Brook Water Co. v. Kelly
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Sept. T., 1898, No. 3, on bill in equity in case of The Spring Brook Water Company, and the Spring Brook Water Supply Co. v. M. J. Kelly. Bill in equity for an injunction. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The plaintiffs filed a bill in equity to restrain the defendant from selling certain unseated lands for nonpayment of taxes which had been assessed by the county commissioners of Lackawanna county for county and township purposes for the years' 1895 and 1896. After a hearing on bill, answer and testimony,. the court below entered a decree permanently enjoining the-*349county treasurer from selling the whole of one and .part of another tract of land, and the court dissolved the preliminary injunction as to the rest of the land described in the bill.
The plaintiff corporations…
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