City Avenue & Germantown Bridge
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 177, Jan. T., 1894, by David E. Williams, a taxpayer, from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1892, setting aside proceedings to free a bridge from toll. Petition to free bridge from toll.
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Appeal, No. 177, Jan. T., 1894, by David E. Williams, a taxpayer, from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1892, setting aside proceedings to free a bridge from toll. Petition to free bridge from toll. On Dec. 28, 1892, David E. Williams and others presented a petition to the court of quarter sessions, representing : 1. That they were residents and taxpayers of the city and county of Philadelphia. 2. That the bridge owned by the City Avenue and German-town Bridge Company, incorporated March 8, 1888, is erected over the Schuylkill river from a point in the city of Philadelphia near where City…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb,. Justice McCollum,
The learned judge of the court of quarter sessions thought the act of May 8, 1876, “authorizing the acquisition by the several counties of this commonwealth, for the use of the county, of bridges erected over rivers, creeks and rivulets, and for the abolition of tolls thereon,” was not applicable to Philadelphia county, because the legislature did not specifically declare it to be so. This thought appears to have had its origin in a supposition that the legislature, having knowledge of the change effected by the Consolidation Act, would have said that the act…
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