Case ID: pa-super_9/html/0621-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Borough of Lansdowne v. The Delaware County and Philadelphia Electric Railway Company, Appellant.
    Argued Nov. 28, 1898.
    March 23, 1899:
    Appeal, No. 105, Oct. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., June T., 1897, ■ No. 2, on verdict for plaintiff.
    Before Rice, P. J., Oblady, Smith, W. W. Pobteb and W. D. Pobteb, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion by Smith, J.
    Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $132.90. Defendant appealed.
    
      J. B. Hannum, for appellant.
    
      L. L. Smith, for appellee.
   Opinion by

Smith,

The essential features of this case are ruled by our decision in The Borough of Ridley' Park v. Citizens’ Electric Light Company, ante, p. 615. The defendant’s first point was rightly refused. The fact that the poles were erected in the street before the borough was created cannot strip the municipality of the powers vested by the act of incorporation nor impair their due execution. This principle is established by cases in the United States Supreme Court and in those of our own Supreme Court.

All the specifications are overruled and the judgment is affirmed.