American Car & Foundry Co. v. Altoona & Beech Creek Railroad

Citations

• 218 Pa. 519
• 67 A. 838
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 563

Syllabus

<p>Bailment — Sale—Contract—Lease of cars.</p> <p>An instrument in writing leasing a number of passenger cars for use on a railway at a stated rental per month with privilege to the lessee to purchase the cars, constitutes a bailment, and not a sale.</p> <p>Appeals — Record—Testimony.</p> <p>A loose paper not attached to, and not in any way identifying the stenographer’s report of the testimony, and not filed in the office of the prothonotary of the court below until after the record and the stenographer’s report of the testimony have been removed to the appellate court is not a compliance with the rule of court.</p> <p>Appeals — Assignments of error — Evidence.</p> <p>An assignment of error to the admission of a writing, which contains no reference to the page of the paper-book where the writing may be found printed, violates rule 31.</p> <p>Assignments of error to the rejection of papers are defective if the assignments do not contain a copy of the writing rejected.</p>