Grugan v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 224, Jan. T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., Dee., T., 1892, No. 1001, on verdict for plaintiffs, James Grugan, James Grugan trustee, under will of John Grugan, deceased, and William H. Hinkle, appellees. . Appeal from assessment of land damages.
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Appeal, No. 224, Jan. T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., Dee., T., 1892, No. 1001, on verdict for plaintiffs, James Grugan, James Grugan trustee, under will of John Grugan, deceased, and William H. Hinkle, appellees. . Appeal from assessment of land damages. Before Reed, J. At the trial, the court, under objection and exception, refused to admit in evidence the record of a road jury appointed in 1877, by the court of quarter sessions of February term, 1877, to determine the necessity of opening Twenty-eighth street from Park street to Reed street, and which…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
The appellees are the owners of a tract of land containing *343about five acres situate ou and crossed by Reed, T wenty-eighth and Dickinson streets in the city of Philadelphia, and used, prior to 1889, as a brickyard. On the 21st of October, 1889, an ordinance authorizing the opening of Twenty-eighth street from Gray’s Perry road to Reed street was passed by councils and approved by the mayor. The ordinance provided that the director of the Department of Public Works should notify the owners of property over and through which the street would pass, that, at the…
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