Pittsburgh v. Pittsburgh & Charleroi Street Railway Co.

Citations

• 230 Pa. 189
• 79 A. 235
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 586

Syllabus

<p>Street railways — Municipalities—Operation of leased cars.</p> <p>1. Where a street railway company has the franchise to operate its railway on the streets of a municipality, it may operate not only its own cars, but also the cars which are the property of a company which it has leased. In such a case the cars of the lessor company are for all practical purposes the cars of the lessee company when they are operated over the tracks of the latter company.</p> <p>Equity — Equity practice — Amendment.</p> <p>2. A court of equity will not permit a,n amended bill to be filed five months after a final decree has been entered dismissing the original bill.</p>