Wheeler v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 194 Pa. 539
• 45 A. 338
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 433

Syllabus

<p>Street railways — Consent of municipal authorities.</p> <p>A street railway company which has not obtained the consent of all of the municipalities through which it proposes to build its line, has no power to authorize contractors to make excavations in a borough which has consented ; and if such contractors are forcibly prevented by a business corporation having a right in that locality, in the nature of either an easement or an ownership in the land, from making such excavations, the contractors, being trespassers, have no right of action against such corporation.</p>