City of Philadelphia ex rel. Union Paving Co. v. Watts

Kun, J.,

The Council of the City of Philadelphia, by Ordinance approved March 19, 1925, directed the Director of Public Works to make a contract for the paving of Wyoming Avenue from Fifth Street to the Boulevard, and from Rising Sun Avenue to Oxford Branch of Pennsylvania Railroad, with refined asphalt and vitrified block gutters, and the ordinance provided, further, that the contractor “shall collect the cost of the paving from the owners of properties respectively fronting on said streets.”

*805In accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, the City of Philadelphia entered into a contract,…