In re Saw-mill Run Bridge
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari sur appeal to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 19. Appeal from an order of court confirming the report of viewers appointed to assess upon the property of certain citizens of the city of Pittsburgh the cost of the construction of a bridge in said city. The evidence produced before a commissioner disclosed these facts.
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Certiorari sur appeal to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 19. Appeal from an order of court confirming the report of viewers appointed to assess upon the property of certain citizens of the city of Pittsburgh the cost of the construction of a bridge in said city. The evidence produced before a commissioner disclosed these facts. That in 1871 the Pittsburgh and Noblestown Plank-road run through the borough of Temperanceville, at which point was a wooden bridge crossing Saw-mill Run. In 1872 the borough purchased that part of the plank-road within…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
*166General provisions “ concerning streets and sewer's in the city of Pittsburgh,” were contained in an Act of Assembly passed in the session of 1863, and approved on the 6th of January 1864 (Pamph. L. of 1864,1131). The first three sections regulated the mode by which streets, lanes and alleys should be laid out, opened, widened, straightened and extended. All discretion and authority to determine upon the propriety of the steps to be taken were vested in the city councils. Three discreet citizens were to be appointed by them, by ordinance, as viewers to fix the location, breadth and length of…
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