City of Allentown v. Ott

Opinion by

Linn, J.,

This appeal involves the validity of a municipal claim filed by the City of Allentown to the use of a contractor for paving and curbing part of 19th Street along land of appellee, after a trial in which the learned court below denied recovery on two grounds: holding (1) that the claim was a second, and therefore unauthorized, assessment under the ordinance providing for the improvement; and, (2) that the amount claimed was not calculated on the foot-front basis as required by the ordinance, but was obtained by multiplying the paved area in front of the abutting property (to…