Upper Moreland-Hatboro Joint Sewer Authority v. Wilson

Forrest, J.,

Plaintiff, Upper Moreland-Hatboro Joint Sewer Authority, assessed defendants, Norman M. Wilson and Amelia S. Wilson, for the construction of its sewer on the basis of the entire frontage of defendants’ property, notwithstanding that the sewer was not laid along any of the frontage .of such property. The appellate courts in Pennsylvania decided in Wilson v. Upper Moreland-Hatboro Joint Sewer Authority, 183 Pa. Superior Ct. 588 (1957), affirmed by the Supreme Court in a per curiam order at 392 Pa. 245 (1958), that the front-foot rule authorized by the Municipality Authorities Act…