Commonwealth v. Doe
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 165, April T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1910, No. 227, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. John Doe, alias J. W. Webber. Indictment for violating the Act of June 7, 1907, P. L. 453, relating to street railway fares in cities of the second class.
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Appeal, No. 165, April T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1910, No. 227, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. John Doe, alias J. W. Webber. Indictment for violating the Act of June 7, 1907, P. L. 453, relating to street railway fares in cities of the second class. At the trial counsel for defendant proposed to prove by a witness upon the stand, to be followed by other testimony, that the line upon which the prosecutor took passage, at the date laid in the indictment, was the Fifth, Shady and Penn avenue line; that the end of this line was the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
This case was argued at the same time as was Ashworth v. The Pittsburg Railways Company, ante, p. 326, in which an opinion is filed this day; and for the reasons therein given the first and second assignments of error in this case are overruled.
The Pittsburg Railways Company operates two lines of street cars, going in opposite directions, upon double tracks on the same streets, and called the “Fifth, Shady and Penn” line. The track of each line is an irregular ellipse, having an east and west long axis of about five miles, and a continuous circuit of about ten miles in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. RosenzweigSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
- Vedder v. . FellowsNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
- Maul v. RiderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
- Pittsb. C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. LyonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Dietrich v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872
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