KAMERER v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The plaintiffs, alleging that their property in Mercer Township, Butler County, had been damaged by the Commonwealth’s relocation and improvement of State Highway Route 73, petitioned the Court of Quarter Ses sions of the county, pursuant to the provisions of Section 16 of the Act of May 31, 1911, P. L. 468, as supplemented and amended (36 PS §171), for the appointment of viewers to assess the damages alleged. The court so acted; and, following a view and hearings, the viewers filed a report wherein they assessed no damages to the petitioners. The latter thereupon…