Fecher v. Allegheny County

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Dbew,

Plaintiff is the owner of residential property located on East Beaver Street in the Borough of Glenfield, extending back several hundred feet to the Ohio River. East Beaver Street is parallel and adjacent to the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and prior to 1926 was part of the Lincoln Highway, which crossed the four tracks of the railroad at grade at Dixmont Crossing and Glenfield Crossing, respectively about 1,700 feet east and 1,000 feet west of plaintiff’s property. In 1926, as a part of a great public improvement known as the Ohio River Boulevard, these…