In Re Opening of Schaffer Avenue

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

Appellants appealed to the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County from the report of viewers awarding them damages for land taken in the opening of Schaffer Avenue, in the Borough (now City) of Washington. They failed, however, to state in or set forth with their appeal the grounds upon which it was taken, as required by the Borough Code of 1915, chap. VI, article II, section 29, P. Li. 342, which was a virtual reenactment of the same provision contained in the Act of April 2, 1903, P. L. 124. On motion of the city solicitor the court below struck off the appeal for…