Pennsylvania Canal Co. v. Milton & Watsontown Passenger Railway Co.

Citations

• 203 Pa. 282
• 52 A. 1135
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 709

Syllabus

<p>Street railways — Canals—Bridge—Consent of canal company.</p> <p>The Superior Court in reversing a decree of the court of common pleas sitting in equity, decided that the Pennsylvania Canal Company held title to its property in fee, and was such an owner of land as to make its consent necessary before a street railway company could cross the canal upon a bridge which the canal company owned, controlled and maintained. On an appeal • to the Supreme Court, the judges who heard the case being equally divided in opinion, the decree of the Superior Court was affirmed.</p>