A. H. Reid Creamery & Dairy Supply Co. v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

Plaintiff was the owner of land abutting on Haverford Street in the City of Philadelphia, and the building constructed thereon was 17 feet below the grade of the thirty-font highway as it existed in 1915. By ordinances passed June 15th and July 13th of that year, pursuant to the statutory authority given the city to condemn for grading and widening, the street was broadened to 80, and the level of the old road raised to 23 feet above the natural surface of the land. Due notice of the intended change was given the property owners, and the' proceeding became…