Bellevue Borough v. Umstead
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 215, April T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., July T., 1906, No. 504, for defendant on case stated in suit of Bellevue Borough v. L. E. Umstead, with notice to George H. Quaill. Case stated to determine the validity of a municipal lien for grading and paving.
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Appeal, No. 215, April T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., July T., 1906, No. 504, for defendant on case stated in suit of Bellevue Borough v. L. E. Umstead, with notice to George H. Quaill. Case stated to determine the validity of a municipal lien for grading and paving. Before Frazer, P. J. In addition to the facts stated in the opinion of the Superior Court the record showed that the report of viewers upon which the lien was based was filed on May 28, 1902, and that the sheriff’s sale in foreclosure proceedings was on February 4,1903. The court entered…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
The mortgage, the foreclosure of which resulted in the sheriff’s sale, when recorded in 1899, was, admittedly the first lien against the lot described in it. The ordinance of the plaintiff borough, authorizing the improvement of the street on which the lot fronted, was not enacted until after the mortgage had been recorded. The work was done still later, and as the result of the report of viewers, confirmed by the court, a municipal lien or claim, for 8168.35, was filed in court against the lot. A scire facias was then issued on the mortgage, a judgrnént obtained and a sale…
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