Stump's Appeal
Stump's Appeal
Opinion of the Court
The decree of the Court below was affirmed by the Supreme; Court on March 28, 1881 in the following opinion per
Every question presented by this record has been already decided by this Court adversely to the appellants. When they were here in Spangler’s Appeal, 14 P. S. 387, we held that a bill in equity would not lie because the Act incorporating the defendant gave a remedy by a proceeding for the assessment of damages, and! that remedy must be pursued. Since then they have resorted to-that mode of redress, and had their damages assessed, and now they allege the insolvency of the defendant and their consequent
The case of Levering vs. The Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown R. R. Co., 8 W. & S. 459, cited by the appellants, is not applicable. That was a case in which land was taken, and the Act of incorporation only conferred the right to occupy and use the ground taken, on payment, or tender of payment of the amount awarded by the viewers. This was held to be a condition precedent, and if not performed the right of occupancy was gone. But in the Act incorporating the defendant in this case there is no such provision, and hence the case referred to is not in . point. The Court below was clearly right .in dismissing the appellants’ bill.
Decree affirmed.
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