Leiper v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 166, Jan. T., 1917, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., March T., 1916, No. 3378, in equity, for plaintiff in case of Callender I. Leiper v. The Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad Company and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Bill in equity for injunction. Before Finletter, J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned inter alia was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fox,
Callender I. Leiper, the appellee, filed a bill in equity against the Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad Company and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, praying for an injunction restraining the defendants from exceeding the rates specified in a contract made on the fifteenth day of March, 1887, between George M. Lewis, who was then the owner of certain stone quarries on a tract of land in the Township of Springfield, County of Delaware, State of Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad Company.
The agreement in question in its second paragraph…
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