Carlisle & Mount Holly Railway Co. v. Philadelphia, Harrisburg & Pittsburg Railroad

Citations

• 199 Pa. 532
• 49 A. 305
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 655

Syllabus

<p>Bailroads—Crossings at grade—Act of June 19, 1871, P. L. 1361.</p> <p>On a bill in equity under the Act of June 19, 1871, to regulate the crossing of a railroad by a street railway, the plaintiff has no standing to object that the defendant has no charter right to maintain a steam railroad at the point in controversy, where it appears that the defendant had operated its road for thirty years, ran more than fifty trains a day over it, and that the commonwealth had in numerous instances recognized the validity of the power as originally exercised by the defendants’ predecessor in title.</p>