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Savings & Trust Co. v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 3, 1911No. Appeal, No. 178PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal, No. 178, Oct, T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Indiana Co., Sept. .Term, 1906, No. 349, on verdict for plaintiff in case of The Savings & Trust Company of Indiana, Pa., administrator of the Estate of Martha R. Sloan, deceased, v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Appeal from award of jury of view. Before Tel-ford, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $10,887. Defendant appealed.

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Appeal, No. 178, Oct, T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Indiana Co., Sept. .Term, 1906, No. 349, on verdict for plaintiff in case of The Savings & Trust Company of Indiana, Pa., administrator of the Estate of Martha R. Sloan, deceased, v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Appeal from award of jury of view. Before Tel-ford, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $10,887. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were (1, 15) in permitting witnesses, in giving their estimate of the market value of the tract as a whole to include as…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stewabt,

The action was for damages for the taking of land under the right of eminent domain. The land taken is a narrow strip containing eight acres, part of a larger tract of sixty-one acres lying partly within and partly without the borough of Blairsville. This strip had been condemned by the defendant company for the purpose of constructing thereon a railroad track parallel with another previously constructed on the same tract. From the judgment obtained on the verdict in the court below the defendant company has appealed, and we have pre*487sented to us nineteen…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. McSorley v. Avalon Borough School DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
  2. Pennsylvania Gas & Water Co. v. Pennsylvania Turnpike CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
  3. Stoner v. Metropolitan Edison Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970
  4. National Brick Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
  5. Brown v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1960

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