In re Opening of Jackson Street
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia, county: Of July Term 1875, No. 55. This was a proceeding to open Jackson street from Thirteenth street to Movamensing avenue, in the city of Philadelphia. The petition of citizens, filed December 6th 1873, asked the court for a jury to view and lay out said street as laid down by the Board of Survey on the plan of the streets of the city of Philadelphia.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia, county: Of July Term 1875, No. 55. This was a proceeding to open Jackson street from Thirteenth street to Movamensing avenue, in the city of Philadelphia. The petition of citizens, filed December 6th 1873, asked the court for a jury to view and lay out said street as laid down by the Board of Survey on the plan of the streets of the city of Philadelphia. By the report of the jury, made on the 23d of February 1875, it appeared that their first meeting was held on the 28th of September 1874, at which an adjournment was had to the 5th…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
These proceedings were begun by a petition to the Quarter Sessions “ to appoint proper persons to view and lay out Jackson street from Thirteenth street to Moyamensing avenue, as laid down by the Board of Survey on the plan of streets of the city of Philadelphia.” The viewers appointed pursuant to the petition reported on the 23d of February 1875, that there was “ a public necessity for the laying out and opening of the street;” that they endeavored to procure releases of damages from the owners of lands over which it was located ; that failing in that effort they proceeded to ascertain the…
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