Burke v. City of Bethlehem

OPINION BY

President Judge LEADBETTER.

The City of Bethlehem appeals from that portion of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County’s December 8, 2009 order denying the City’s motion for summary judgment in a case involving a pedestrian injury on the sidewalk portion of the Hill-to-Hill Bridge, designated as State Route 378 and spanning the Lehigh River and some railroad tracks. 1 The issue before us in this interlocutory appeal is whether the common pleas court erred in determining that the sidewalks on the bridge were within a right-of-way of a street owned by the third-class City of…