Thirteenth Street
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 113, Oct. T., 1908, by Mary E. Brownlee, from decree of C. P. No. 5, Phila. Co., June Term, 1905, No. 1,443, dismissing exceptions to the report of viewers in case of Change of Grade of Thirteenth Street from Godfret Avenue to a point 230 feet north of Sixty-fifth Avenue north in the forty-second ward of the city of Philadelphia. Exceptions to report of viewers. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 113, Oct. T., 1908, by Mary E. Brownlee, from decree of C. P. No. 5, Phila. Co., June Term, 1905, No. 1,443, dismissing exceptions to the report of viewers in case of Change of Grade of Thirteenth Street from Godfret Avenue to a point 230 feet north of Sixty-fifth Avenue north in the forty-second ward of the city of Philadelphia. Exceptions to report of viewers. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to report of viewers.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
Mary E. Brownlee, the appellant, on June 14,1905, presented her petition to the court below representing that Thirteenth street, between Godfrey avenue and a point 230 feet north of Sixty-fifth avenue north, in the forty-second ward of the city of Philadelphia, was a legally open street upon the public plans of the city and that by ordinance approved April 8, 1902, the councils of the city authorized the grading of the said part of Thirteenth street, that the petitioner was the owner of property, abutting upon the said part of Thirteenth street, and “that by reason of the…
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- Change of Grade in Plan 166Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
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- Howley v. PittsburgSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
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