Cumberland Valley Railroad v. Harrisburg & Mechanicsburg Street Railway Co.
Cumberland Valley Railroad v. Harrisburg & Mechanicsburg Street Railway Co.
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The contention of the defendant that the route of the railway has been changed since the former decision was made, and is now laid on the bed of a public highway where it crosses the plaintiff’s land is not sustained. The learned court below in its fifth and sixth findings of fact declared as follows: “ 5. Prior to the time the bill was filed, the defendant surveyed the route
It appears therefore that the whole of this matter was before the court below and this Court when the decree for the injunction was granted. That decree was made for the first time, by this Court on October 6,1896, and on January 18,1897, it was ordered by this Court that the record be remitted to the court below for further proceedings. The writ of injunction was not issued until January 27, 1897. The application for an attachment was not made until June 8, 1897, and the answer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s petition was filed on June 17, 1897. The opinion of the court below was filed on July 18, 1897, and the matter now alleged as to the change of the bed of the road was .then heard and distinctly decided against the defendant. The court said: “ Since January 28,1897, the respondents to the above rule have openly violated the writ of injunction which on that date was served on them under the decree of the Supreme Court. The statement now made in vindication of their course, viz: that the injunction was not intended to apply to the tracks through the western span of plaintiff’s viaduct is not correct, and we cannot conceive how the respondents could have been misled on the subject.” Thus it will be perceived there was a distinct finding of the court below upon the very fact now set up as to the alleged changed location of the bed of the road after the decree for the injunction was made. It further appears by the answer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s petition for an attachment that the present allegation of a removal of the bed of the road from one span of the plaintiff’s viaduct to another and different span is not correct in fact. Thus the answer avers “that since the decree of the Supreme Court the said Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg Electric Railway Company has moved its tracks from the side of the public highway on which the same was located into the center thereof, so that every part and parcel thereof lies upon the public highway where the right of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company is crossed.” In the face of this averment of the answer and
Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at the cost of the defendant.
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