Russell v. Rock Run Fuel Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 118, Oct. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., October Term, 1896, No. 325, dismissing bill in equity. Bill in equity for a receiver and for an account. The facts appear by the opinion of tbe Supreme Court. Error assigned was in dismissing bill in equity.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
John A. Snee, being the owner of gas wells and a small pipe line, in Jefferson and Mifflin townships, Allegheny county, on August 26, 1893, entered into a contract with the Campbell *104Glass Co. to supply it with 576,000 feet of gas per day for a period of five years. Without the right of eminent domain, he had secured by contract a right of way for his pipe line for a short distance, but was hampered for want of power to extend it: to obviate this, he procured the incorporation of a gas company under the act of 1885. To compty with the law, he induced five of his…
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