Legal Opinion

Murtland Street Sewer

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 3, 1910No. Appeal, No. 175PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal, No. 175, Oct. T., 1909, by Charles M. Clarke, from order of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1909, No. 242, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers In re Murtland Street Sewer. Exceptions to report of viewers. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Error assigned was in confirming viewers’ report.

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This appeal is from an order confirming the report of a board of viewers assessing special benefits for the construction of a sewer. It brings before us only the report of the viewers, the exceptions thereto and the order of confirmation. The city built two fifteen-inch sewers at the sides of each of two streets on which a part of the appellant’s property abutted. All four of these sewers drained into a sewer of equal size built at the same time, thus limiting the capacity of the entire sewer system to a sewer fifteen inches in diameter. The appellant’s contention is that, since a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Park Avenue SewersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. West Liberty Avenue SewerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
  2. Carlisle StreetSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1913

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