Twitchell v. City of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Errur to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action of assumpsit by George S. Twitchell against The City of Philadelphia, to recover the sum of $5750, with interest, on an alleged parol contract for the sale of a house and lot of ground at the south-east corner of Locust street and Raspberry alley, by the plaintiff to the defendant.
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Errur to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action of assumpsit by George S. Twitchell against The City of Philadelphia, to recover the sum of $5750, with interest, on an alleged parol contract for the sale of a house and lot of ground at the south-east corner of Locust street and Raspberry alley, by the plaintiff to the defendant. On the 1st February 1854, George W. Brown, one of the defendants in the preceding ease, entered into the following contract with the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia, for the sale of one of the lots of ground designed as sites for the new…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Read, J.
The question in this case arises out of certain contracts, made under the authority of the councils of the old city proper, for the purchase of sites for market-houses, in anticipation of the immediate passage of the consolidation act. The documentary evidence in the cause furnishes a connected history of the transactions attending this last exercise of power to increase the city debt $650,000.
On the 27th October 1853, Mr. Snowden, in the select council, offered the following resolution, to wit: — “ Resolved, that the committee on city property…
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