Supreme Court of Pennsylvania July 1, 1860 (City of Philadelphia v. Eastwick)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Read, J.

Under the provisions of their charter, The Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, in the year 1838, located their railroad on the south side of the Gray’s Ferry road, in the township of Passyunk, afterwards the district of Moyamensing, through a piece of land belonging to Deborah Bingham and others; who, on the 26th June in the