Culver v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

This appeal involves a claim for damages to real estate by reason of the improvement of a state highway.

Acting pursuant to the Act of May 31, 1911, P. L. 468, as amended by the Act of July 12, 1935, P. L. 946, the commonwealth widened and changed the grade of State Highway No. 82, section 8, in Vernon Township, Crawford County, on which abuts a property of Rodney Culver, appellee. This necessitated the taking of .38 of an acre of land along the frontage of appellee’s property, consisting of 5.5 acres with a dwelling and outbuildings erected thereon, and also…