Appeal of the Protestant Orphan Asylum
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 104. This was an appeal bv the Protestant Orphan Asvlum of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Martha Watson, R. Millei’, Jr., Joseph N. Patterson, Thomas H. Patterson, and James F. Hall, administrator of the estate of Robert Sterrett, deceased, from the decree of the court dismissing their exceptions to the report of viewers-and confirming said report.
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Appeal from the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 104. This was an appeal bv the Protestant Orphan Asvlum of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Martha Watson, R. Millei’, Jr., Joseph N. Patterson, Thomas H. Patterson, and James F. Hall, administrator of the estate of Robert Sterrett, deceased, from the decree of the court dismissing their exceptions to the report of viewers-and confirming said report. The following are the facts in the case: In April, 1883, a petition of various citizens of the city of Pittsburgh was presented to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The Act of the 13th of May, 1871, Avas evidently devised for the purpose of avoiding the constitutional prohibition against unequal taxation aiid to render as far as possible ineffectual the blow struck at this kind of taxation in the case of Hammett v. Philadelphia, 15 P. F. S., 146. The twelfth section of this Act provides as follows: “ Whenever the councils *143of the said city of Pittsburgh shall desire to re-pave or re-grade any street, lane or alley, or parts thereof, either with the same or improved kind of paving, and the cost of the original grading or paving was paid by the property…
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