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CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. STANDARD OIL CO.

No. 16128.

12 F.Supp. 647 (1934)

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF PENNSYLVANIA.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 27, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Coe Farrier, Asst. City Sol., and David J. Smyth, City Sol., both of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

W. James MacIntosh and William Clarke Mason, both of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

The Standard Oil Company, the defendant, is an owner of land with riparian frontage on the Schuylkill river within the limits of the city of Philadelphia. That city, acting under authorization given to it by a statute of the state of Pennsylvania enacted in 1913 (Act July 22, 1913, P. L. 911 [53 PS Pa. § 4351]), has built a retaining structure variously called a bulkhead or mud fence, consisting of sheet piling of a substantial and...

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