Allison v. Bigelow
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 34, April T., 1917, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Mercer Co., April T., 1915, No. 30, on verdict for plaintiff in case of H. W. Allison v. E. M. Bigelow, State Highway Commissioner of Pennsylvania.
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Appeal, No. 34, April T., 1917, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Mercer Co., April T., 1915, No. 30, on verdict for plaintiff in case of H. W. Allison v. E. M. Bigelow, State Highway Commissioner of Pennsylvania. Issue certified from the Court of Quarter Sessions of Mercer County to the Court of Common Pleas to determine the amount of damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of a portion of his property being appropriated by the State highway commissioner, under Section 16 of the Act of May 31, 1911, P. L. 468. Before A. W. Williams, P. J. At the trial it appeared that the…
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Head, J.,
The brief from the office of the attorney general is interesting, elaborate and instructive. But after the most mature reflection we are able to give to the questions involved we are impelled to the conclusion they lie within a narrow compass. Their solution, depending, as it does, on the construction of a statute, is not rendered any more difficult by the fact the State of Pennsylvania is a party litigant. In our conception of government there is no place for what we call the State if it is to be regarded as something different from or superior to the people who compose…
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