Pray v. Northern Liberties
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the District Court of Philadelphia.* This was a municipal claim filed by The Commissioners and Inhabitants of the Incorporated District of the Northern Liberties, on the 19th March 1842, against Peter P. Nonater, owner or reputed owner, &c., for $808.58; for pavement and curbstone laid in front of a lot of ground, on the east side of Fourth street, 101 feet from Poplar street, on the 20th July 1828, with interest and commissions thereon.
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Error, to the District Court of Philadelphia.* This was a municipal claim filed by The Commissioners and Inhabitants of the Incorporated District of the Northern Liberties, on the 19th March 1842, against Peter P. Nonater, owner or reputed owner, &c., for $808.58; for pavement and curbstone laid in front of a lot of ground, on the east side of Fourth street, 101 feet from Poplar street, on the 20th July 1828, with interest and commissions thereon. On the same day on which the claim was filed, a scire facias was issued thereon, under the provisions of the Act 16th April 1840. To this writ the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Coulter, J.
This is a claim filed by the Commissioners of the Northern Liberties under the Act of 1840, for paving, &c. That Act seems fully to cover and protect the case of the commissioners. It is of no consequence that the claim existed before the passage of the act. The claim was undoubtedly good. The Act of 1840 only facilitated and enlarged the remedy; it did not create the right. The owner or reputed owner is named in the claim filed, the property sufficiently described, so as to identify it to a reasonable intendment. The writ of scire facias…
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