City of Allegheny v. Black's Heirs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas No. 2, of Allegheny county : Of October and November Term 1881, No. 293. This was an appeal by the heirs of George Black from the report of viewers on the opening of Frazier street in the city of Allegheny, from Western avenue to Ridge avenue, along the western line of property belonging to appellants.
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Error to the Common Pleas No. 2, of Allegheny county : Of October and November Term 1881, No. 293. This was an appeal by the heirs of George Black from the report of viewers on the opening of Frazier street in the city of Allegheny, from Western avenue to Ridge avenue, along the western line of property belonging to appellants. An issue was framed by the court, wherein the appellants were plaintiffs and the city of Allegheny defendant, to determine what damages plaintiffs were entitled to for said opening. On the trial, before Kirkpatrick, J., the defendant called Isaac M. Penneck to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The measure of damages for the taking of land for a public highway, is the difference between the market value of the en*154tire property, at the time a portion of it is taken, or the injury committed, and its market value after such injury. See Shenango and Allegheny Railroad Company v. Braham, 29 P. F. S. 447, where many of the authorities are collected. In estimating the market value of the land, everything which gives it intrinsic value is to be taken into consideration. And it is not to be limited to a particular rise. Ibid., and see Cummings v. City of Williamsport, 3 Norris 472. But, in…
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