Henry v. Allegheny County

Opinion by

Me. Chief Justice Jones,

The County of Allegheny appealed to the court below the viewers’ award of $14,560 in favor of the plaintiffs as damages for a taking by the county of the property of the plaintiffs for highway improvement. The county denied liability on the ground that the statute of limitations was a bar to the plaintiffs’ claim. The mattér was submitted to the court below on a case stated whereon the hearing judge, adopting the county’s contention, entered a compulsory nonsuit which the court en banc later refused to- take off. From the ensuing judgment in favor of the…