In re Vacation of Melon Street
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 380, Jan. T., 1898, by city of Philadelphia, from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., certified by the Superior Court. Appeal from the court of quarter sessions to the Superior Court, and certified by the latter court to the Supreme Court. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were in entering judgments in favor of claimants, and in making absolute rules for mandamus against the city of Philadelphia.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Stebbett,
While this is nominally an appeal from the court of quarter sessions of Philadelphia to the Superior Court, and thence certified here, it is in reality an appeal from the final judgments of this Court in In re Melon Street, Appeals of Stadelman and others, 182 Pa. 397, entered in that court in obedience to our mandate. In that regard, as the records will show, the case is certainly sui generis.
In its inception, the last mentioned case was a proceeding in the court of quarter sessions of Philadelphia by the owners of certain properties on Melon street in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- In re Melon StreetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Philadelphia & Reading Terminal Railroad Co.'s AppealSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- In re Melon StreetSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
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