Appeal of the Hite Natural Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FROM THE DECREE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO 2. OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, IN EQUITY. No. 264 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 241 July Term 1886, C. P. No. 2, in equity.
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FROM THE DECREE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO 2. OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, IN EQUITY. No. 264 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 241 July Term 1886, C. P. No. 2, in equity. On May 13,1886, the American Tube and Iron Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Pennsylvania, filed a bill in equity against P. Y. Hite, Roswell P. Crafts and twenty-six others, partners, as the Hite Natural Gas Company, Limited, seeking to enforce liability of the defendants as general partners for the payment of a debt due the plaintiff, an injunction, a dissolution and the appointment of a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams:
The Hite Natural Gas Company, Limited, was organized under the provisions of the act of June 2,1874, with a capital of $250,000, divided into twenty-five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each. The business contemplated was the production of natural gas from wells near Tarentum, and its transportation to the ,city of Allegheny for sale as a fuel. The company contracted with P. Y. Hite, one of its members, to furnish the right of way for its line, the pipe and other mate*452rials necessary for its construction, and to lay and complete the pipe line to Allegheny, a…
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