Kennedy v. Board of Health
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to e District Court of lire city and county of Philadelphia. April 17. — The Board of health issued a scire facias on a claim for $47 87, for removing a nuisance on defendant’s property.
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Error to e District Court of lire city and county of Philadelphia. April 17. — The Board of health issued a scire facias on a claim for $47 87, for removing a nuisance on defendant’s property. The claim, as filed, described the property and the nuisance as a pond of stagnant water, removed by their depositing earth thereon after due notice to defendant and neglect by him; annexed was a bill of particulars to be considered as part of the claim; and averring that the nuisance was removed, and the money paid within six months, immediately before filing the claim. The bill was dated August 30th,…
1Opinion of the Court
Kennedy, J.,
after stating the record. — By the 27th section of the act of the 29th of January, 1818, it is made the duty of the board to cause all offensive or putrid substances, and all nuisances which may have a tendency, in tlmr opinion, to endanger the health of the citizens, to be removed from the streets, lanes, alleys, highways wharves, docks, or any other part or parts of the city of Philadelphia., the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties, Moyamensing and Penn. And in the conclusion of the same section, it is enacted, that the expenses attending the…
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