Opening of C. Street, Verona Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No 57 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 60 March Term 1885, Q. S. Misc.
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No 57 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 60 March Term 1885, Q. S. Misc. On June 80, 1885, the petition of A. M. Graver, G. P. Graver and others, was presented, showing that Michael Graver died on May 23, 1885, seized of a parcel of ground in the borough of Verona and that the petitioners were his widow and heirs: that by an ordinance of said borough, passed January 19, 1885, it was enacted that that part of C. street lying between Railroad avenue and Sixth street be taken for a public highway, that the same was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams:
This case depends on the power of the Court of Quarter Sessions to direct a review for the assessment of damages in the borough of Verona. The incorporation of this borough was not effected under the general borough law, but by a special act of assembly passed in 1871, which provided that the act of incorporation for the borough of Birmingham in the county of Allegheny, and its various supplements, should so far as applicable be extended to the borohgh of Verona. Birmingham was incorporated several years prior to the general borough law of 1834, and by a…
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