Farmers-Kissinger Market House Co., Inc. v. Reading

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal from the dismissal of plaintiff’s bill inequity. It presents two questions: (1) whether the ordinance of a third-class city prohibiting the vehicular use of private driveways across the sidewalks of nine blocks along the busiest street of that city was enacted under legislative authority; and (2) (assuming the first question to be answered in the affirmative) does that ordinance deprive a citizen of his property without compensation, that is, without that due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution?

Pl…