Valmont Developing Co. v. Rosser

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Plaintiff prior to 1926 became the owner of a large tract of land lying between Market and Pierce Streets, in Kingston, Luzerne County. A public highway on which the land, now divided into lots, fronts, extended from Market Street by bridge across the Susquehanna River to Wilkes-Barre. The county commissioners, believing the bridge insufficient to accommodate existing travel, petitioned the court of quarter sessions to reconstruct it. The grand jury on January 31, 1919, approved the project and the court below gave a qualified approval without committing it “to…