Borough of Birmingham v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action by Elizabeth Anderson, against the Authorities of the Borough of Birmingham, to recover damages for the appropriation of ground alleged to be hers, for the purposes of a public landing.
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Error to tbe District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action by Elizabeth Anderson, against the Authorities of the Borough of Birmingham, to recover damages for the appropriation of ground alleged to be hers, for the purposes of a public landing. The cause arose under the provisions of an Act of Assembly, passed April 19th 1858, entitled “An Act establishing a Public Wharf or Landing in the Borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny,” of which the following is an abstract: The first section declares the locus in quo to be a public landing, authorizes the taking of tolls, &c.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered
by Read, J.
Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, being the owner in fee simple of seventy-five acres of the Ormsby Villa survey, on the south bank of the Monongahela river, opposite Pittsburgh, laid out the town of Birmingham in the year 1811, which covered the whole of the northern end of this tract. He of course made a plan of his town, by which his lots were to be sold — and a copy of it, entitled a plan of the town of Birmingham, was placed on record in December 1811, in Deed Book R, vol. 17, page 412, but by whom does not appear, and it was cut out by Mr. Nixon,…
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