Frederick Street
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 458, Jan. T., 1893, by Lizzie F. Young, a property owner, from order of C. P. York Co., dismissing exceptions to report of viewers to assess dam- ages for opening Frederick street in Hanover borough. Exceptions to report of viewers to assess damages for opening street.
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Appeal, No. 458, Jan. T., 1893, by Lizzie F. Young, a property owner, from order of C. P. York Co., dismissing exceptions to report of viewers to assess dam- ages for opening Frederick street in Hanover borough. Exceptions to report of viewers to assess damages for opening street. The facts appear by the following opinion of the court below, by Bittengek, J.: “ The first exception relates to the manner in which the ordinance laying out the street and widening the same was procured to be passed; not for the public benefit or the improvement of the street in question, but in the interest and…
1Opinion of the Court
Per, Curiam,
There is nothing, of importance, in either of the twelve specifications of error, that is not sufficiently answered and satisfactorily disposed of in the opinion of the learned judge of the common pleas. The validity of the ordinance widening Frederick street was not an open question in this case: Hanover Borough’s Appeal, 150 Pa. 202. The viewers were appointed for the purpose of assessing damages and benefits resulting-from the laying out and widening of the street; and, as was said in Omega Street, 152 Pa. 129, it was the duty of all persons interested to appear before them and…
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- Omega StreetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
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