Wabash Avenue
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 115, April T., 1904, by J. H. Covert, from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1908, No. 963, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers. Exceptions to report of viewers.
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Appeal, No. 115, April T., 1904, by J. H. Covert, from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1908, No. 963, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers. Exceptions to report of viewers. The exceptions printed were as follows : 3. The city of Allegheny has no authority in law to award damages for the grading of a street and assess said damages on abutting properties, except in one proceeding, which includes the whole of the street on which a grade has been established. 4. The city of Allegheny never authorized the grading, paving and curbing of Wabash avenue in the tenth ward, from…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Pobteb, J.,
The assignments of error in this case might properly be quashed. The first assignment complains that the court below erred, “ in dismissing the exceptions to the report of the board of viewers.” This is a clear violation of Rule XIY of this court, for there seem to have been many exceptions filed by the appellant in the court below; he prints three in his paper-book diere, and under them his learned counsel have argued several distinct questions. When this record is remitted to the court below the record of this court will not show what questions were attempted to be…
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