Hoag v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 174. Case brought by H. W. Hoag and George O. Alger, doing business as Hoag & Alger, for use of E. S. Hoag, against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, to recover damages for the alleged negligence of defendant. Plaintiffs owned an oil lease in Oil City, near the track of defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 174. Case brought by H. W. Hoag and George O. Alger, doing business as Hoag & Alger, for use of E. S. Hoag, against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, to recover damages for the alleged negligence of defendant. Plaintiffs owned an oil lease in Oil City, near the track of defendant. The railroad of defendant runs along the right hank of Oil creek, at the base of a high and precipitous hill. On the 5th of April 187 3, during a rain storm, a slide of earth and rocks came down the side…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
X This was an action on the case to recover compensation for certain property destroyed by, fire, caused, as was alleged, by the negligence of the defendants. The facts, so far as they are essential to elucidate the point in controversy, are as follows : The plaintiffs were the occupiers of a piece of land situated within the limits of Oil City, on the western bank of Oil creek. The railroad of defendants is constructed along said creek, over the land of the plaintiffs and at the base of a high hill.' On the afternoon of April 5th 1873, during a rain storm, there was a small slide of earth…
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