Sipe v. Tarentum Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 32, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1917, No. 1134, in equity, dismissing plaintiff’s bill in case of James B. Sipe y. The Borough of Tarentum, H. Clay White, Burgess, and W. S. Denny et al., Councilmen of the Borough of Tarentum, Pa. Bill in equity to restrain the passage of a borough ordinance providing for the opening of a private roadway as a public highway. Before Davis, J. The court dismissed the bill.
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Appeal, No. 32, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1917, No. 1134, in equity, dismissing plaintiff’s bill in case of James B. Sipe y. The Borough of Tarentum, H. Clay White, Burgess, and W. S. Denny et al., Councilmen of the Borough of Tarentum, Pa. Bill in equity to restrain the passage of a borough ordinance providing for the opening of a private roadway as a public highway. Before Davis, J. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were in dismissing plaintiff’s exceptions to certain findings of fact and conclusions of law,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
In 1916 plaintiff, under foreclosure proceedings, became the owner of a tract of land in Tarentum Borough, lying between the Pennsylvania railroad and the Allegheny river, bounded on the east by property of the Tarentum Paper Mills Company and on the west by vacant land of the Philadelphia Warehouse Company. Along the western line of plaintiff’s land and on the property of the warehouse company was a private road leading across the tracks of the railroad company at grade, and connected with the streets of the borough. The road turned at an angle eastward across…
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