Reading City Passenger Railway Co. v. Berks County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 26, Jan. T., 1914, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Berks Co., Equity Docket, 1913, No. 1096, on bill and cross-bill in equity for an injunction in case of Beading City Passenger Railway Company, Reading Traction Company, United Traction Company, and Reading Transit Company v. County of Berks. Bill in equity for an injunction; cross-bill for decree fixing compensation for use of county bridge.. Before. Endlich, P..
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Appeal, No. 26, Jan. T., 1914, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Berks Co., Equity Docket, 1913, No. 1096, on bill and cross-bill in equity for an injunction in case of Beading City Passenger Railway Company, Reading Traction Company, United Traction Company, and Reading Transit Company v. County of Berks. Bill in equity for an injunction; cross-bill for decree fixing compensation for use of county bridge.. Before. Endlich, P.. J. From the record it appeared that the bill was filed to restrain the County of Berks from preventing the appellants from running cars over the Harrisburg bridge,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
With the demolition and removal of the old Harrisburg bridge, in the City of Reading, there was a termination of the agreement of December 27, 1893, between the County of Berks and the Reading City Passenger Railway Company and the Reading Traction Company. When that bridge passed away the agreement of 1893 passed away with it. The learned chancellor below was so manifestly correct as to this that we are not called upon to say anything further upon the subject. When the new and much larger county bridge was erected the appellants had no right to occupy it without,…
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