Maxler v. Freeport Borough
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 87, April T., 1911, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Armstrong Co., Dec. T., 1908, No. 89, refusing to take off nonsuit in suit of Frank Maxler and E. H. Wallace v. Freeport Borough. Issued on appeal from award of a jury of view. Before Patton, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order refusing to take off nonsuit.
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Appeal, No. 87, April T., 1911, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Armstrong Co., Dec. T., 1908, No. 89, refusing to take off nonsuit in suit of Frank Maxler and E. H. Wallace v. Freeport Borough. Issued on appeal from award of a jury of view. Before Patton, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order refusing to take off nonsuit. Hand v. Fellows, 148 Pa. 456; Hanover Borough’s Appeal, 150 Pa. 202; Verona Borough v. R. R. Co., 187 Pa. 358; Seams v. Washington Borough, 172 Pa. 467; Beltzhoover Borough v. Gollings, 101 Pa. 293. Suter v. Wilmerding Borough,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
In order to give a correct understanding of this case, it seems necessary to recite, at considerable length, the proceedings which culminated in the plaintiffs being dismissed without being permitted to be heard before the jury upon the question as to the amount of damages, if any, they had sustained by reason of the change of grade of Second' street, in the issue that had been framed at the instance of the borough for the determination of that very question.
Upon petition of more than two-thirds in number and interest of the abutting property owners, the borough ordained…
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