Pennsylvania Co. v. Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of January Term, 1885, No. 106. Amicable action by the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad Company against the Pennsylvania Company, in which it was stated that “ the matter to be tried is the liability of the defendant to pay to the plaintiff the amount of three judgments recovered in the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County ” against the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad Company in favor of William Gibson, James McMasters and William…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of January Term, 1885, No. 106. Amicable action by the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad Company against the Pennsylvania Company, in which it was stated that “ the matter to be tried is the liability of the defendant to pay to the plaintiff the amount of three judgments recovered in the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County ” against the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad Company in favor of William Gibson, James McMasters and William Douthett for $2,100, $302.50 and $500 respectively, with interest and costs. The parties agreed in the amicable action…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad Company on the 24th day of March, 1870, by writing under seal leased its entire road, with the rollihg stock, equipments and effects, together with all its rights and franchises, to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for a term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, from and after the first day of March, A. D. 1870, and trans: ferred to the same company all its contracts made prior to' that date. On the first day of April, 1873, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company assigned the lease and the rights it secured to the Pennsylvania Company, the defendant in this suit,…
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