Klingler v. Bickel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE BUTLER COUNTY. No. 140 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct; court below No. 75 June Term 1886, C. P. This was an action of trespass vi et armis q. c. f. brought by Henry Bickel and Wm. G. Biebl, partners as Bickel & Biebl, against H. J. Klingler, George Walter and sixteen others. The plea was not guilty.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE BUTLER COUNTY. No. 140 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct; court below No. 75 June Term 1886, C. P. This was an action of trespass vi et armis q. c. f. brought by Henry Bickel and Wm. G. Biebl, partners as Bickel & Biebl, against H. J. Klingler, George Walter and sixteen others. The plea was not guilty. On April 7, 1886, the burgess and town council of the borough of Butler (subject to the provisions of the general borough act of 1851), under the authority of the act of June 8,1885, P. L. 55, passed an ordinance with the following provisions:— Section 1. Be it…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Paxson :
There are seventeen assignments of error in this case. To discuss them in detail would be tedious. I can best dispose of them by indicating briefly the principles of law involved.
This was an action of trespass vi et armis quare clausum fregit, brought by the plaintiffs below against the defendants for demolishing a frame building in the course of construction in the borough of Butler. The plaintiffs were the owners or lessees of the building; the defendants were citizens of Butler, and justified under the authority of the town council of that borough.
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