Conemaugh Gas Co. v. Jackson Farm Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 70, Oct. T., 1897, by-defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1895, No. 398, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to specifically enforce a contract to supply natural gas.
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Appeal, No. 70, Oct. T., 1897, by-defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1895, No. 398, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to specifically enforce a contract to supply natural gas. The case was referred to Thomas Patterson, Esq., who reported the facts to be as follows: FINDINGS OF FACT. 1. The Jackson Farm Company, prior to the making of the contract of October 12, 1894, with the Conemaugh Company, had a number of producing wells in Armstrong county, the gas from which it supplied at wholesale largely to two consumers, the West Penn Gas Company and P. H. Laufman & Co.,…
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Mr. Justice McCollum:,
The assignments of error from the first to the tenth, inclusive, are based upon and call in question the correctness of the referee’s findings of fact. Presumably the findings were authorized by the evidence, and the presumption that they were is strengthened by the clear, concise and obviously impartial report in which they appear, and by the approval of the report by the court, after full argument upon and due consideration of the exceptions to it. A careful reading of the voluminous testimony in the case having satisfied us that the findings referred to were…
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