Borough of Avonmore v. Taylor

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

This appeal is from a judgment entered for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense on a scire facias sur municipal lien.

The ordinance authorizing the improvement and forming the basis of the claim in suit directed the grading and paving with concrete of a strip eighteen feet wide to be laid in the center of certain streets and avenues. It was enacted without petition of property holders and assessed two-thirds of the cost of the directed improvement upon the owners of property bounding or abutting thereon, by the foot front rule. (Act of May 14, 1915, P. L. 312, Chap.…