Morewood Avenue
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, Oct. T., 1893, by Mrs. Alexander Chambers, Mrs. Emma Y. Adams, W. L. Abbott, Mrs. L. V. Childs, John R. McGinley, J. M. Schoonmaker and E. M. Ferguson, from orders of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1892, No. 117, dismissing exceptions to report of street viewers.
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Appeals, Nos. 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, Oct. T., 1893, by Mrs. Alexander Chambers, Mrs. Emma Y. Adams, W. L. Abbott, Mrs. L. V. Childs, John R. McGinley, J. M. Schoonmaker and E. M. Ferguson, from orders of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1892, No. 117, dismissing exceptions to report of street viewers. Exceptions to report of viewers appointed to assess damages and benefits for grading, paving and curbing Morewood avenue, formerly Barton street, between Fifth avenue and Forbes street, in the city of Pittsburgh. The viewers after reciting notice of meeting, etc., reported : “That they…
1Opinion of the Court
MRS. ALEXANDER CHAMBERS’S APPEAL.
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
In this case the one question which overshadows and dominates all others is, whether it is competent to assess the cost of grading, paving and curbing a part of one street in a city, upon properties not situate upon the street to be improved, but being within “ the neighborhood ” of the improvement.
The authority for such an assessment is claimed to be found in the law of May 16,1891, P. L. page 71. It is not at all clear that the legislature ever intended to confer such a power by the act in question. The first clause of the first…
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