Oil City v. Oil City Boiler Works
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 172, Oct. T., 1892, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Venango Co., April T., 1891, No. 14, on verdict for defendant. Scire facias sur municipal lien for sewer assessments. . The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 172, Oct. T., 1892, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Venango Co., April T., 1891, No. 14, on verdict for defendant. Scire facias sur municipal lien for sewer assessments. . The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Defendant’s points were, among others, as follows.: “ 8. The uncontradicted evidence being that the main sewer on Duncomb street lies two hundred and twenty feet distant from the lands of defendant, against which claim is made herein, and can only be reached from said land by a lateral sewer, said main sewer does not afford local sewerage for said lands…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Sterrett,
This scire facias issued on a municipal claim founded on an assessment for the cost of constructing Duncomb street sewer under provisions of the act May 23, 1889, P. L. 312.
The first section of article mi. of said act provides that the’ councils of any city of the third class may provide by ordinance for the division thereof into sewer districts, and may direct the city engineer to make an estimate of the cost and expense of constructing any main sewer, or reconstructing the same, and to report to councils what proportion of said cost and expense is required for…
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