Park Avenue Sewers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 374, Jan. T., 1898, by Clara M. Parker et al., from order of C. P. Lycoming Co., June T., 1892, No. 458, overruling exceptions to report of viewers. Petition of F. H. Keller, mayor of Williamsport, for appointment of viewers to assess benefits arising from tbe construction of sewers upon Park avenue and other streets in the city of Williamsport. Viewers were appointed and assessed benefits iu accordance with the prayer of tbe petition.
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Appeal, No. 374, Jan. T., 1898, by Clara M. Parker et al., from order of C. P. Lycoming Co., June T., 1892, No. 458, overruling exceptions to report of viewers. Petition of F. H. Keller, mayor of Williamsport, for appointment of viewers to assess benefits arising from tbe construction of sewers upon Park avenue and other streets in the city of Williamsport. Viewers were appointed and assessed benefits iu accordance with the prayer of tbe petition. Clara M. Parker and other property owners filed, inter alia, the following exceptions to the report of the viewers. “ 1. Because said viewers have…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
This case suggests, and has been broadly argued on the question of the true basis -of assessments on property owners for benefits from the construction of sewers. More specifically stated it involves the right of a municipal corporation to have benefits assessed on any property not abutting directly on the line of the sewer, and the assessment of the excess of the cost of a main over a branch or lateral sewer. The appellant’s complaint is first, that the cost of the sewer was assessed on abutting properties only, and not on all the property in the sewer…
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