City of Philadelphia v. Gratz Land Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. On the 23d of March 1856, the city of Philadelphia filed a claim against the Gratz Land Company for $526.50, for.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. On the 23d of March 1856, the city of Philadelphia filed a claim against the Gratz Land Company for $526.50, for. “removing a nuisance from a lot of ground at the south-west corner of Mary and Master Streets, in Philadelphia,” describing the lot by metes and bounds, “ which nuisance consisted of a pond of stagnant water, which after due notice to the Company, was removed by the Board of Health by filling the pond with dirt and levelling the same, in doing which, they within six months last past, incurred and paid” the sum above mentioned. The claim…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Strong, J.
— In The City of Philadelphia v. Sutter, 6 Casey 53, it was ruled, that municipal claims for paving, curbing, &c., require substantially the same precision which those of mechanics and material-men require under the Act of Assembly of 16th June 1836. Such claims were authorized to be made liens of record by the Act of 16th of April 1840, which, with some subsequent acts, assimilated them to claims of mechanics and material-men. At the time when the Act of 1840 was passed, •there were in existence certain statutory requisites to the validity…
2Cited by1 opinion
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