Smucker v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 26, March T., 1897, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 48, on verdict for defendant. Trespass for occupation of plaintiffs’ lands. Before Bell, P. J., of the 24th judicial district, specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 26, March T., 1897, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 48, on verdict for defendant. Trespass for occupation of plaintiffs’ lands. Before Bell, P. J., of the 24th judicial district, specially presiding. This action was brought to recover damages for injuries done by defendant to the plaintiffs by casting a large quantity of stone and dirt and by laying railroad trades upon a strip of ground lying between the abandoned Pennsylvania canal and' the Juniata river, and forming the southern parts of lots numbered from 109 to 116, inclusive, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Wickham, J.,
On November 21, 1787, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted to William Smith, his heirs and assigns, a tract of land called The Standing Stone, and bounded and described as follows : “ Situate on the northeast side of Frankstown branch of Juniata, in Huntingdon county, beginning at a hickory on the bank of said branch, thence by a vacant hill north 63° east 118 perches to a post; thence by land of Ashur Clayton and vacant Piney hill south 20° east 262 perches to a hickory; thence by Piney hill south 42° east 152 perches to a comer white oak of William Smith’s land;…
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