Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General v. Union Pass. Ry.

Citations

• 163 Pa. 22
• 29 A. 711
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 1136

Syllabus

<p>Street railways—Location—Act of Nov. 22, 1873—Quo warranto.</p> <p>The act of Nov. 22, 1873, P. L. of 1874, 444, authorized the Union Passenger Railway Company to extend its routes on certain specified streets in the city of Philadelphia “ and on such other street or streets south of Christian street west of Twentieth street north of Columbia avenue and east of Third street as councils of the city of Philadelphia may from time to time permit or authorize to be used by said company with single or double tracks.” Two of these streets,—Christian in the southerly and Columbia avenue in the northerly section of the city,—run nearly east and west, and both are crossed at right angles by the other two,—Third and Twentieth streets,—while York street is north of and parallel with Columbia avenue. Held, that the street railway company, councils consenting, had a right to occupy York street between Pourth and Twentieth streets, and that the company was not limited by its charter merely to those streets within the lines of the southwesterly angle formed by the intersection and extension of the lines of Christian and Twentieth streets, and of the northeasterly angle formed by the intersection and extension of the lines of Third street and Columbia avenue.</p>