City of Scranton v. Pennsylvania Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna county: Of July Term, 1883, No. 3. Scire facias sur municipal claim, by tbe city of Scranton against tbe Pennsylvania Coal Company, owner or reputed owner, to recover tbe sum of $763.63, being tbe amount of an assessment laid against certain property fronting on Washington avenue, for the cost of grading tbe same.
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Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna county: Of July Term, 1883, No. 3. Scire facias sur municipal claim, by tbe city of Scranton against tbe Pennsylvania Coal Company, owner or reputed owner, to recover tbe sum of $763.63, being tbe amount of an assessment laid against certain property fronting on Washington avenue, for the cost of grading tbe same. On the trial, before Handley, P. J., and Lewis and Moeeitt, A. JJ., the following facts appeared: Washington avenue, in tbe city of Scranton, was opened and graded under tbe provisions of tbe Act of April 3, 1872, entitled “An Act to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The contention in the case before us has its origin in a scire facias issued on a municipal claim, filed on behalf of the city of Scranton, against certain lands of the defendant below abutting on Washington Avenue in said city. This avenue or street was laid out, opened and graded under the provisions of the Act of the 3d of April, 1872, entitled “an Act to extend certain avenues in the city of Scranton,” and its supplement of the 17th of April, 1873. This Act provided for the appointment, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county, of five commissioners, two of whom should be…
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