Springer v. Allegheny County

Opinion by

Me. Chief Justice Jones,

The defendant county appeals from the order of the court below granting a new trial, on the plaintiff’s motion, in an action for the assessment of damages for the county’s appropriation of property of the plaintiff in an exercise of its power of eminent domain.

The property involved embraced 69 acres, more or less, of unimproved land in Findlay Township, Allegheny County, situate on a township road. A small portion of the surface had been stripped for the removal of underlying coal and most of the remaining surface was covered with brush and other undergrowth.…