State Highway Route No. 72
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 45, Oct. T., 1919, by Ellen K. Watson, H. C. Shaw and George E. Shaw, from judgment of Superior Court reversing order and judgment of the Court of Q. S. of Allegheny Co., Nov.
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Appeal, No. 45, Oct. T., 1919, by Ellen K. Watson, H. C. Shaw and George E. Shaw, from judgment of Superior Court reversing order and judgment of the Court of Q. S. of Allegheny Co., Nov. Sessions, 1914, No. 2, and dismissing petition for the appointment of viewers to ascertain and assess damages caused by the construction and improvement of State Highway Route No. 72. Petition for appointment of viewers to ascertain and assess damages to abutting property occasioned by a change and elevation of the grade of the State highway designated as State Highway Route No. 72, extending from Pittsburgh…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
The question here is as to the liability of the Commonwealth for damages occasioned by the change of grade of a State highway. Appellants’ land abuts on the road leading from Pittsburgh to Butler, known as State Highway Route No. 72. By the improvement of this highway the grade thereof was raised, causing damage to the abutting property, but no change was made in the horizontal lines of the road. This occurred since the passage of the Act of May 31, 1911, P. L. 468, being the act for the establishment of a State highway department, etc., and is governed thereby.
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2Cases cited19 opinions
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. RibletSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
- Rich v. KeyserSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1867
- Snively v. Washington TownshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
- State Highway Route No. 72Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- Wagner v. Township of SalzburgSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
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3Cited by41 opinions
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- McGarrity v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1933
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