Philadelphia Appeal

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Jones,

By due enactment of June 9, 1947, Philadelphia’s City council ordained (Section 1) that, by virtue and in pursuance of the authority vested in it by Acts of Assembly, it “does hereby select and appropriate for playgrounds and recreation centers certain sites and tracts of land situate as follows . . .” Then followed descriptions of forty-nine separate tracts. Tract No. 4 consisted of two blocks of property in the Thirteenth Ward of Philadelphia. In one of the blocks there was situated property of Harry A. Schaefer and Philip C. Schaefer (the present appellees)…