Bennett's Branch Improvement Co.'s Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals from the decrees of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: In Equity: No. 308, 330, 331, 371, to January Term 1870. The cases in which these appeals were taken were upon similar pleadings and facts; that in which the opinion of the Supreme Court was delivered was a bill filed August 19th 1867, by Robert M. Winslow and Amelus Gr. Crowell against The Bennett’s Branch Improvement Company and B. C. Bowman, President, and John Gr. Beading, Treasurer of the Company.
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Appeals from the decrees of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: In Equity: No. 308, 330, 331, 371, to January Term 1870. The cases in which these appeals were taken were upon similar pleadings and facts; that in which the opinion of the Supreme Court was delivered was a bill filed August 19th 1867, by Robert M. Winslow and Amelus Gr. Crowell against The Bennett’s Branch Improvement Company and B. C. Bowman, President, and John Gr. Beading, Treasurer of the Company. The other bills were by Woolverton & Tinsman, Quinn & Co. and Philip Gr. Fessler. The Sinnemahoning creek and Bennett’s…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 5th 1870, by
Thompson, C. J.
There are three other cases raising the questions presented in this case, that will be disposed of by our decision in this appeal. There is also an appeal by the company which was argued together with the above, and will also depend on the decision in this case, and will be determined therein.
The matter to which the strength of the arguments of the learned counsel for the appellants in the first three cases was directed, was the constitutionality of the act of incorporation, firstly; and secondly, to the constitutionality…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Samuel v. Knight & Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Genesee-Fork Imp. Co. v. Ives, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Potter County1891