Lewis & Nelson's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court Common Pleas of Jefferson county: In equity, No. 181, to October and November Term 1870. On the 8th of January 18.67, W. W. Corbit filed a bill against Samuel Lewis and William Nelson, in the District Court of Allegheny county.
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Appeal from the Court Common Pleas of Jefferson county: In equity, No. 181, to October and November Term 1870. On the 8th of January 18.67, W. W. Corbit filed a bill against Samuel Lewis and William Nelson, in the District Court of Allegheny county. The bill charged that the defendants having a.title, in the manner stated in the bill, to timber land in Jefferson county, it was agreed between them and the plaintiff by. two different .articles, dated May 28th 1863, that the defendants should furnish the means to build saw-mills and other necessary buildings to manufacture boards and shingles;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
The first point made is on the constitutionality of the Act of Assembly of April 10th 1867, Pamph. L. 1067, entitled “ An Act to change the venue in certain cases from Allegheny to Jefferson county.” The bill in this case was filed originally in the District Court of Allegheny county, and was there pending when by this act it was directed to be removed to the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county. If there was a provision in the constitution that no man should be sued except in the county of his residence, there might be some reason…
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