Widening of Chestnut Street
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OP QUARTER SESSION'S OP PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 66 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. — December Term 1885, Q. S. On September 17, 1885, Geo.
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OP QUARTER SESSION'S OP PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 66 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. — December Term 1885, Q. S. On September 17, 1885, Geo. H. McFadden & Bros, presented their petition setting forth: That they were the owners of contiguous properties, described as on the north side of Chestnut street and east of Second street, in the sixth ward of the city of Philadelphia; that by an ordinance approved March 31, 1884, the city councils ordained: Section 1. That the Department of Surveys be and is hereby authorized to revise the city plans, so as- to make…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Paxson :
Several of the assignments of error are to questions of fact which we have no means of correcting, even if erroneous. A writ of certiorari, as we have said at least an hundred times, brings up nothing but the record, and we can correct such errors only as are apparent upon its face. Thus we have no means of knowing whether the parties to whom damages have been awarded are the owners of the properties in question, beyond the finding of the jury. The city solicitor will doubtless see that the damages are paid only to parties who are legally entitled to them.
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