City of Oil City v. Morris
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango County. Scire facias sur municipal claim filed by the city of Oil City against Louis Morris, owner or reputed owner of a lot in the said city, for the construction of a sewer. , The act relative to sewers in the city of Oil City, approved March 11th, 1872, provides, inter alia: “Section 1. That the civil engineer of said city and the committee of the city council on streets shall form a commission to make and adopt a general plan…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango County. Scire facias sur municipal claim filed by the city of Oil City against Louis Morris, owner or reputed owner of a lot in the said city, for the construction of a sewer. , The act relative to sewers in the city of Oil City, approved March 11th, 1872, provides, inter alia: “Section 1. That the civil engineer of said city and the committee of the city council on streets shall form a commission to make and adopt a general plan dividing the whole city into sewer districts, to be submitted to council for approval ; each district to have one or…
1Per curiam
The commission required by the act of March 11th, 1872, relative to sewers in Oil City, was such a board of viewers as was contemplated by the act of May 1st, 1876, and which made it imperative that such board should view the property liable to assessment for the cost of construction of the sewers. It was properly, therefore, submitted by the learned Court to the jury to find whether such a view was made by this commission as a body before the passage of the ordinance. The errors assigned are, therefore, not sustained.
Judgment affirmed.
2Cited by1 opinion
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