Chester City v. Evans
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 144, Oct. T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1900, No. 512, on verdict for plaintiff in case of City of Chester v. John J. Evans. Scire facias sur municipal lien for paving. Before Johnson, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was in entering judgment for plaintiff non obstante veredicto.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Pontee, J.,
The questions presented by this record arise out of the trial, in the court below, of an issue which involved the validity of a municipal lien for paving. The city of Chester, in 1889, paved the roadway of Edgmont avenue, from Twelfth street to Fifteenth street, with vitrified brick, and filed a lien against the property of the defendant which abutted upon that part of the street. The defendant averred that his property was not subject to this lien for the reason that the street in question had been permanently improved by the city, as a city street, and had been by the…
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