Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street RailwayCo.'s Petition
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 205, Jan. T., 1901, by the Chester, Darby & Philadelphia Railway Company, the Union Railway Company of Chester and the Chester Traction Company, from order of C. P. Delaware Co., June T., 1900, No. 104, appointing viewers and permitting the filing of a bond in the matter of Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Company’s Petition. Petition for appointment of viewers and for leave to file a bond. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 205, Jan. T., 1901, by the Chester, Darby & Philadelphia Railway Company, the Union Railway Company of Chester and the Chester Traction Company, from order of C. P. Delaware Co., June T., 1900, No. 104, appointing viewers and permitting the filing of a bond in the matter of Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Company’s Petition. Petition for appointment of viewers and for leave to file a bond. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the order of the court, appointing viewers and approving bond.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The appellant is the owner of an electric street railway running from Chester to Darby on the Chester and Darby Telford road. Appellee is the owner of another street railway extending west, from a point where Parker avenue of Collingdale borough intersects the Chester and Darby Telford road. This point is about 800 feet west of Darby. On June 4, 1900, the appellee presented a petition to the court of common pleas setting forth that it had constructed its railway over its chartered route as far as the Parker avenue intersection with the Telford *358road, but, that to…
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