In re Vacation of an Alley on Beatty's Plan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 172. The record showed the following: G. B. Seely and eleven others presented a petition to said court, setting forth that they were “ property owners and freeholders in the vicinity ” of a- “ certain alley without a name, situate in the Nineteenth Ward, City of Pittsburgh, laid .out and located in Isabella Beatty’s plan of lots in said ward, iii which said alley . . . was…
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 172. The record showed the following: G. B. Seely and eleven others presented a petition to said court, setting forth that they were “ property owners and freeholders in the vicinity ” of a- “ certain alley without a name, situate in the Nineteenth Ward, City of Pittsburgh, laid .out and located in Isabella Beatty’s plan of lots in said ward, iii which said alley . . . was dedicated to public use,” that “ said alley is of no public use to those owning lands abutting thereon.” The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The proceedings to vacate the alley in question were evi*624dently under the Act of May 8th 1854, P. L. 045, and had it been a public alley there would have been less room for criticism. There is nothing upon the face of this record to show that the alley was a public alley. The petition sets forth “ That an alley without a name, situate in the Nineteenth ward, city of Pittsburgh, laid out and located in Isabella Beatty’s plan of lots laid out in said ward in which said alley, extending from Livery alley to Stanton avenue, was dedicated to public use.” The dedication to public use by the owners…
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