Ridge Avenue-Eighth Street Subway Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

These two appeals, arising on different records, one in Common Pleas No. 4 and the other in Common Pleas No. 5, raise the same question and were argued together.

In the one case the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia, and in the other, Mary Ziegenfuss, alleged ownership of property abutting on a street in which the city constructed a subway, and, as part of it, constructed within the street lines in front of each petitioner’s prop erty a kiosk or subway entrance. Each owner filed * a petition for viewers averring in substance that the construction of the kiosk bad…