Snee v. West Side Belt Railroad

Citations

• 210 Pa. 480
• 60 A. 94
• 1904 Pa. LEXIS 909

Syllabus

<p>Railroads—Eminent domain—Width of road—Taking land in excess of sixty feet—Necessity—Act of February 19, 1849, sec. 10, P. L. 79.</p> <p>A railroad company has no right under section 10 of the act of February 19, 1849, to take land for its right of way in excess of the width of sixty feet for the purpose of diverting and relocating the bed of a stream so that the company may from considerations of convenience or economy, and not from necessity, be relieved from constructing two bridges over the stream in question.</p>