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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 43, to October and November Term 1871. In the matter of opening Eorbes street in the City of Pittsburg, and the assessment of damages therefor. On the 16th oí June 1836, an Act of Assembly (Pamph. L. 750) was passed directing that a tract of land adjoining the eastern side of the city of Pittsburg should be set off, defined by limits and surveyed (as in the act specified), as a city district of that city.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 43, to October and November Term 1871. In the matter of opening Eorbes street in the City of Pittsburg, and the assessment of damages therefor. On the 16th oí June 1836, an Act of Assembly (Pamph. L. 750) was passed directing that a tract of land adjoining the eastern side of the city of Pittsburg should be set off, defined by limits and surveyed (as in the act specified), as a city district of that city. The Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county was to appoint three commissioners to survey and sét off the district,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 13th 1872, by
Read, J.
By an Act passed the 16th June 1836 (Pamph. L. 750), a tract of land adjoining to and bounded in part by the eastern bounds of the city of Pittsburg, was directed to be set off, defined by limits and surveyed, in the manner and for the purposes therein specified, as a city district, for the said city commissioners appointed under said act, were to make a subdivision of the same into sections, and to make and lay out a general plan of the said district, to survey, locate and mark therein, such streets, alleys and squares as they…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re the District of PittsburghSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1841
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- Philadelphia ParkwaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
- Caplan's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1928
- In re Opening of Brooklyn StreetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
- Bush v. McKeesport CitySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Griffin v. City of New CastleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
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