Monessen-Charleroi Bridge
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 192, April T., 1917, by Henry W. Scott et al., from order of Q. S. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1916, No. 179, sustaining demurrer to a petition to free a bridge in the Matter of the Monessen-Charleroi Bridge. Demurrer to petition to free a bridge.
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Appeal, No. 192, April T., 1917, by Henry W. Scott et al., from order of Q. S. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1916, No. 179, sustaining demurrer to a petition to free a bridge in the Matter of the Monessen-Charleroi Bridge. Demurrer to petition to free a bridge. The court in an opinion by McIlvaine, P. J., and Irwin, J., stated the facts to be as follows : The bridge which it is sought in this proceeding to have made a county bridge is 1,997 feet long, including its two approaches which are together over 100 feet; or in other words, Lincoln avenue in North Charleroi Borough in Washington County, on…
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Opinion by
Porter, J.,
There was presented to the court of Washington County a petition by certain residents and taxpayers, asking that the toll bridge owned by the Mercantile Bridge Company crossing the Monongahela river, be taken as a county bridge and freed from toll. The bridge company filed a demurrer to the petition. The proceedings were had under the Act of Assembly, May 8, 1876, P. L. 131. The question involved is, whether the act can be applied to a case where the bridge to be freed connects highways running parallel to a river on both sides thereof, the said bridge crossing the river…
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