Chestnut Avenue
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
March 3d 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia: No. 20, to July Term 1870. Chestnut Avenue is laid down on the plan of the city of Philadelphia as a continuous street from Thirty-second street to the-Chestnut Hill and Spring-house Turnpike.
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March 3d 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia: No. 20, to July Term 1870. Chestnut Avenue is laid down on the plan of the city of Philadelphia as a continuous street from Thirty-second street to the-Chestnut Hill and Spring-house Turnpike. For years it had been opened between the Spring-house Turnpike and the Perkiomen Turnpike, and between Thomas’s Mill Road and Thirty-second: street, leaving the space between Thomas’s Mill Road and thePerkiomen Turnpike unopened, all being in the Twenty-second…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Read, J.
Chestnut Avenue is laid down on the city plan as a continuous street from the Spring-house Turnpike to Thirty-second street, and the portion of it between the Perkiomen Turnpike and Thomas’s Mill Road was ordered by councils to be opened, and a jury was appointed to assess the damages. By the general law applying to the whole city, the persons benefited as property owners in the immediate vicinity would be assessed whether on the line of the street or not. The Acts of 1869, 11th section, 18th March, Pamph. L. 395, and 3d section, April 10th,…
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