Beechwood Avenue Sewer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 139, Oct. T., 1896, by the City of Pittsburg, from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1896, No. 94, sustaining an appeal from award of viewers. Appeal from award of viewers to assess damages and benents for constructing a sewer on the line of Beechwood avenue and private property of W. A. Hoeveler, et al. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in not striking from the record the appeal of W. A. Hoeveler et ah
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The general proceedings ending in this decree have been stated in City of Pittsburg’s Appeal, No. 144, October term, 1896, ante, 490, and need not be repeated. The appellees here, and appellants from the award of viewers to assess damages and benefits, owned eighteen acres of farm land in the sewer district, on which was a small house; through this land for the distance of nearly eleven hundred feet was constructed Beechwood avenue sewer. The viewers assessed upon the laird, by reason of the construction of the sewer, a net benefit of four thousand four hundred and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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