Commonwealth v. New York
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ELK COUNTY. No. 243 January.Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 53 May Term 1884, C. P. On March 10, 1884, Mr. Lewis C. Cassidy, Attorney General, exhibited in the court below, on behalf of the commonwealth, an information and prayer for a writ of quo warranto against the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company, with notice to the Northwestern Mining & Exchange Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, and the New York,…
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ELK COUNTY. No. 243 January.Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 53 May Term 1884, C. P. On March 10, 1884, Mr. Lewis C. Cassidy, Attorney General, exhibited in the court below, on behalf of the commonwealth, an information and prayer for a writ of quo warranto against the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company, with notice to the Northwestern Mining & Exchange Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, and the New York, Lake Erie & Western Coal & Railroad Company, to escheat certain lands in Elk county alleged to have become forfeited to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
This was an information in the nature of- a quo warranto, filed by the attorney general, the object of which was to es-cheat to the commonwealth certain lands in Elk county, alleged to be held by or for the defendant railroad company. The facts, as disclosed by the evidence and admitted by the parties, do not. differ essentially from those in Commonwealth v. Railroad Co., reported in 114 Pa. 840. This is really a branch of the same proceeding, but for lands lying in a different county. The present case has been twice argued, a re-argument having *605been ordered…
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- Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General v. New York, Lake Erie & Western RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
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