Stork v. City of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 280, Jan. T., 1899, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Pbila. Co., Sept. T., 1894, No. 876, on verdict for plaintiff. Appeal from jury of view. Before Arnold, P. J. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff owned a lot of ground on Eighteenth street about fourteen feet south from the south building line of Pennsylvania avenue. A dwelling bouse was erected upon tlie lot.
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Appeal, No. 280, Jan. T., 1899, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Pbila. Co., Sept. T., 1894, No. 876, on verdict for plaintiff. Appeal from jury of view. Before Arnold, P. J. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff owned a lot of ground on Eighteenth street about fourteen feet south from the south building line of Pennsylvania avenue. A dwelling bouse was erected upon tlie lot. In the course of construction of the Reading railroad subway tlie contractors tore down the bouse between plaintiff’s bouse and Pennsylvania avenue, and proceeded to dig away the ground upon which it stood.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
In the construction of a public improvement, known as the subway, for the avoidance of grade crossings of the streets of the city, and the tracks of the Reading railroad, the grade of Pennsylvania avenue was lowered and it became necessary to build a retaining wall to support the soil at the sides. Plaintiff was the owner of a house which fronted on Eighteenth *103street. Neither it nor the lot on which it was built abutted at any point on Pennsylvania avenue, but the lot extended back towards the avenue so that the nearest corner was four feet at the bottom, and…
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