City of Erie v. First Universalist Church
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 218. This was a scire facias sur municipal lien filed by the City of Erie against “ A piece of land fronting on Ninth street, and Trustees First Universalist Church, owners or reputed owners,” to recover a proportionate part of the cost of a sewer built by the city in Ninth street in front of said lot, being 82]- feet on Ninth street.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 218. This was a scire facias sur municipal lien filed by the City of Erie against “ A piece of land fronting on Ninth street, and Trustees First Universalist Church, owners or reputed owners,” to recover a proportionate part of the cost of a sewer built by the city in Ninth street in front of said lot, being 82]- feet on Ninth street. The defendants, trustees of the church, filed the following affidavit of defence: “ That the land described in the writ in this case is all annexed to the church building of said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
This is the case of a scire facias on a lien filed by the city of Erie-for the cost of a sewer built by the municipality in Ninth street, of said city, in front of the lot owned by the defendants, on which is erected a building occupied and used as a place of regular stated religions worship bjr the congregation of the First Universalist church of Erie. On part of the defendants it is claimed that the property so used and occupied is, by the first section of the Act of May 14, 1874, P. L., 158, exempted from the assessment which forms the basis of the lien above stated. This claim is…
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