Main Street, Big Run Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAR BY A. M. MCCLURE EROM THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE JEEEERSON COUNTY. No. 2 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 22 February Term 1889, Q. S. On February 26, 1889, the burgess and town council of the borough of Big Run presented a petition, setting forth that an ordinance of said borough, enacted on October 31, 1887, directed the straightening and widening of Main street between the intersection of Hudson street therewith and the eastern boundary of the…
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APPEAR BY A. M. MCCLURE EROM THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE JEEEERSON COUNTY. No. 2 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 22 February Term 1889, Q. S. On February 26, 1889, the burgess and town council of the borough of Big Run presented a petition, setting forth that an ordinance of said borough, enacted on October 31, 1887, directed the straightening and widening of Main street between the intersection of Hudson street therewith and the eastern boundary of the borough, as more particularly described in a draft annexed to and made a part of the petition ; praying for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Green:
In the case of Chestnut Avenue, 68 Pa. 81, a portion of the avenue was ordered to be opened, and thereupon a petition of the owners, through whose land the street was opened, was presented for the appointment of viewers to assess the damages they would sustain by reason of the opening. A jury was appointed, who assessed the damages of the petitioners at $2,500, and charged a considerable part of the amount upon land which was situate upon a portion of the avenue which had been pre*594viously opened. Exceptions were filed by tbe latter owners, who claimed that tbe…
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