Riverton Ferry Co. v. McKeesport & Duquesne Bridge Co.

Citations

• 179 Pa. 466
• 36 A. 186
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 669

Syllabus

<p>Ferries — Bridges—Eminent domain — Damages.</p> <p>Where a bridge company has appropriated a landing of a ferry company, and built its structure across the line of the ferry, and it appears that during the interval between the commencement and the completion of the bridge, the ferry would have had an earning capacity, if it had not been destroyed, the ferry company is entitled to damages for the destruction of its business during that interval at least: Bridgewater Ferry Co. v. Sharon Bridge Co., 145 Pa. 404, distinguished.</p>