Buck Mountain Coal Co. v. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certified from the Court at Nisi JPrius. This was a proceeding founded on a bill in equity, filed January 3d 1863, by The Buck Mountain Coal Company against The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, in which the complainants set forth that they were incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved the 16th day of June, A. D. 1836, for the purpose of mining coal, and for transacting the usual business of companies engaged in the…
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Certified from the Court at Nisi JPrius. This was a proceeding founded on a bill in equity, filed January 3d 1863, by The Buck Mountain Coal Company against The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, in which the complainants set forth that they were incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved the 16th day of June, A. D. 1836, for the purpose of mining coal, and for transacting the usual business of companies engaged in the mining, transporting to market, and selling of coal and the other products of coal-mines; and were subsequently authorized to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
The bill filed in this case sets forth that, by the Act to incorporate the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, passed the 13th of April 1822, the Lehigh river, between the points intended to be improved, viz., between its mouth and the Great Falls, was divided into two grand sections ; the first lying between the mouth of the river and the Nescohoning creek; the second between the last-mentioned point and the foot of the Great Falls; that the entire work, including both sections, had long been completed and in successful operation ; that…
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