Boro of Berwick v. Smethers Et Ux.

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The Borough of Berwick, by virtue of the Act of Assembly, approved June 4, 1901, P. L. 364, and supplements and amendments thereto, filed a municipal claim for laying a sewer. Under Section 2108 of the Act of May 4,1927, P. L. 519 (53 PS 14254), boroughs may make assessments “either by the foot-front rule or in such other manner as to the burgess and town council may seem equitable.” The foot-front rule was adopted.

The defendants are the owners of an ordinary size lot of ground in the borough, with a frontage of 49% feet on Eighth Street and extending back, at equal…