Lower Chichester Twp. v. Roberts

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

The primary dispute in this case is over procedure. The issue revolves around the inclusion by the township, in the expenditures made by it in building a sewer in front of appellants’ properties, of certain items with which it seeks to charge them in levying an assessment for benefits. Should the appellants have raised the question by exceptions filed to the report of the jury of view, or may they challenge the objected-to-items in the trial before a jury in court, on appeal from the award of the viewers?

In making up the cost of the sewer, the municipality…