Borough v. Carmer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 429, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Bradford Co., Dec. T., 1889, No. 512, on verdict for defendant. Scire facias sur municipal lien to recover the cost of constructing a sidewalk.
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Appeal, No. 429, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Bradford Co., Dec. T., 1889, No. 512, on verdict for defendant. Scire facias sur municipal lien to recover the cost of constructing a sidewalk. Before Peck, P. J. At the trial it appeared that defendant was notified to construct a sidewalk in front of her premises, and that having failed to do so the .borough constructed the sidewalk which was about two hundred and eighty feet long, and filed a lien for the cost. The defendant claimed that a thin wedge at one end of the walk an inch or two inches wide at the base, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
This was a proceeding to collect the cost of a sidewalk built by the borough of Athens along the front of the defendant’s premises. Notice had been duly given to defendant’s intestate to rebuild the walk. This had been wholly disregarded. The borough then rebuilt the walk, a distance of about three hundred feet, and filed a lien therefor. The defense is that the walk as laid out by the borough engineer, and afterwards built by the borough, extends a trifle over the street line for a few feet at one side of the lot, and therefore no part of the cost of it can be…
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