Legal Opinion

American Natural Gas Co. v. Evans

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 9, 1916No. Appeal, No. 151PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal, No. 151, April T., 1914, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Indiana Co., March T., 1914, No. 10, refusing to approve bond in condemnation proceedings in case of American Natural Gas Co. v. William A. Evans. Petition for approval of bond in condemnation proceedings. Before Telford, P. J. The court refused to approve the bond. The facts appear by the report of the case of Evans v. American National Gas Company, 55 Pa.

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Appeal, No. 151, April T., 1914, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Indiana Co., March T., 1914, No. 10, refusing to approve bond in condemnation proceedings in case of American Natural Gas Co. v. William A. Evans. Petition for approval of bond in condemnation proceedings. Before Telford, P. J. The court refused to approve the bond. The facts appear by the report of the case of Evans v. American National Gas Company, 55 Pa. Superior Ct. 116, and by the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was order refusing to approve the bond. In no case has a corporation wrongfully in possession…

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Henderson, J.,

The contention between the parties to this appeal arose out of the facts exhibited in Evans v. American Natural Gas Co., 55 Pa. Superior Ct. 116. At that time the appellant undertook to exercise the right of eminent domain over the premises theretofore granted by the appellee to its predecessor-in-title for the maintenance of a natural gas pipe line and a telephone line used in connection with its business. It was decided in the case re*164ferred to that the contract under which the pipes were originally laid “was an entire and indivisable one and that the company grantee…

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