City of Pittsburgh v. Meyers

Opinion by

Jambs, J.,

The defendant appeals from an order of the court below making absolute a rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense to a scire facias sur municipal lien for the assessment of benefits in the construction of a trunk sanitary sewer in the City of Pittsburgh under a joint agreement between the City of Pittsburgh, Mt. Oliver Borough and the Township of Baldwin. The affidavit of defense averred that neither the acts of assembly providing for the joint construction of said sewer nor the said written agreement between said municipalities authorizing the joint…