Schuylkill County v. Public Service Commission
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 183, Oct. T., 1921, by County of Schuylkill, from order of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the matter of complaint of State Highway Department of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company.
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Appeal, No. 183, Oct. T., 1921, by County of Schuylkill, from order of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the matter of complaint of State Highway Department of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. Appeal from order of the Public Service Commission ordering the alteration and reconstruction of overhead crossing carrying the tracks of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company over State Highway Route No. 162, in the Borough of Port Carbon in Schuylkill County, and apportioning the costs between the railroad company and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Linn, J.,
This appeal raises the same question considered in the appeal of Lancaster County in an opinion filed today: whether a county is liable to assessment by the Public Service Commission for the relocation of a crossing of a state highway by a railroad; and we might dismiss it for the reasons there given, but as contentions were presented to us in the argument of this appeal not made in that, we shall briefly consider them.
*508In the Borough of Port Carbon, in Schuylkill County, state highway route No. 162 extends along the north bank of the Schuylkill River and but few feet…
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