Fisher Et Ux. v. Allegheny County

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

In the widening, relocation and construction of State Highway Route No. 72, a part of the property of George E. Fisher and his wife situate in Richland Township, Allegheny County, was appropriated. The property consisted of a farm of 174.8 acres and was bisected by the Butler-Plank Road. This road was relocated, becoming State Route No. 72. The right-of-way of the new road within plaintiffs’ farm is entirely without the lines of the old right-of-way and is partly through a “30-foot-deep cut” on plaintiffs’ land. Of plaintiffs’ farm a strip 60 feet in width and…