City of Pittsburgh v. McKnight
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1878, No. 190. Scire facias sur municipal lien, issued by the City of Pittsburgh, against Robert McKnight and others, executors of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Denny, deceased, for the sum of $938.26, the assessment on certain property of defendant, fronting on Ridge Avenue, in the city of Pittsburgh, and which was levied for the payment of the cost of grading, paving and curbing said avenue.'…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1878, No. 190. Scire facias sur municipal lien, issued by the City of Pittsburgh, against Robert McKnight and others, executors of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Denny, deceased, for the sum of $938.26, the assessment on certain property of defendant, fronting on Ridge Avenue, in the city of Pittsburgh, and which was levied for the payment of the cost of grading, paving and curbing said avenue.' At the trial of the case, the defendant claimed that she should not be compelled to pay the assessment, on the ground,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The city of Pittsburgh has, in this case, no ground of complaint, inasmuch as it has judgment for the full amount of its claim. The jury, under the court’s instruction, found for the plaintiff $1022.98, then, in obedience to a like instruction, they proceed to state certain facts, which they also find, and to give certain directions concerning the set-off of Mrs. Denny’s bill against Johnson, the contractor, and its final credit to the city on the contract with Johnson. It, in fact, amounts to a decree, in which an attempt is made to adjust certain supposed equities between Mrs. Denny and…
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