Allentown v. Heyman

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

In 1916, the council of the City of Allentown adopted an ordinance providing for the paving, among other highways, of Nineteenth Street, from Liberty Street to Both Avenue, the cost to be assessed against abutting properties in proportion to the frontage on the street. A contract was entered into April 29, 1916, with the Barber Asphalt Paving Company for the work in question, at fl.89 a square yard, under which contract, the paving of Nineteenth Street from Both Avenue to Congress Street, approximately one-fourth of the improvement was completed. It was then…