Cummings v. City of Williamsport
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: Of May Term 1877, No. 156. This was an issue framed for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of damages to which A. B. Cummings, the plaintiff, was entitled, for the appropriation of about one acre and a quarter of his land for the purpose of opening a public street through it.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: Of May Term 1877, No. 156. This was an issue framed for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of damages to which A. B. Cummings, the plaintiff, was entitled, for the appropriation of about one acre and a quarter of his land for the purpose of opening a public street through it. Cummings owned a tract of about forty acres of land lying immediately north of the old borough of Williamsport, which by the enlargement of the borough ivas afterwards included within its limits, as was also a tract of land adjoining it on the north belonging to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
Erom the report of the viewers appointed to adjust the damages and contributions payable and chargeable to the owners of land along the extension of Packer street, in the city of Williamsport, A. Boyd Cummings, the plaintiff below and here, was the only appellant. When the issue was directed by the Court of Common Pleas, there was no other controversy than that between the plaintiff and the city. The second section of the supplementary borough Act of the 22d of April 1856, made every report of viewers to assess damages and contributions final and conclusive on all parties after approval and…
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