Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Berk
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 3, 1992No. 735 C.D. 1991PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PALLADINO, Judge.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation (DOT) appeals two March 19, 1991 orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court). The first order overruled DOT’s preliminary objections to a petition for appointment of a board of view filed by appellees Steven Berk and Gerald S. Segal (collectively, landowners). The second order denied DOT’s motion to strike landowners’ filing of a deposition.
Landowners’ petition for appointment of viewers alleged that, in the course of a bridge reconstruction project, there had been a de facto taking of…
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