Fell v. Philadelphia ex rel. Cunningham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of January Term 1874, No. 328. This was an amicable scire facias sur municipal claim entered November 19th 1870, in which the city of Philadelphia, to the use of Michael Cunningham and David McNichol, was plaintiff, and William Jenks Fell, owner, &c., was defendant.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of January Term 1874, No. 328. This was an amicable scire facias sur municipal claim entered November 19th 1870, in which the city of Philadelphia, to the use of Michael Cunningham and David McNichol, was plaintiff, and William Jenks Fell, owner, &c., was defendant. The claim was filed against Fell as owner of a lot on the south side of Kingsessing avenue, formerly Beckett street, and the west side of Forty-second street, in the Twenty-seventh ward, Philadelphia, for work and materials in paving and laying curb and gutter stone on Kingsessing…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
An agreement was entered into on the 27th of March 1869, between a majority of the owners of property on the portion of Becket street which was intended to he improved, and Michael’ Cunningham and Daniel McNichol, for paving that street from its intersection with Woodland street to a point four hundred and five feet west of Forty-second street, in the twenty-seventh ward of Philadelphia. It was stipulated that the work was to he done “ under the direction and to the satisfaction of the chief commissioner of highways,” and was to be paid for at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per…
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