Braucher v. Somerset Borough
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 53, April T., 1914, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Somerset Co., Dec. T., 1912, No. 23, on verdict for plaintiff in case of S. G. Braucher v. Somerset Borough. Appeal from award of jury of view. Before Rtjppel, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,065.23. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was portion of charge quoted in the opinion of the Superior Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Portee., J.,
The borough of Somerset, on April 10, 1911, adopted an ordinance establishing the grades of the east and west curb lines of East street, in that borough. The street had long prior to that time been a public highway, open and used as such. The borough in April, 1912, caused a part of the cartway of the street, to wit, a strip twenty-one feet wide in the middle of the cartway, to be graded. The total width of the street was forty-nine and a half feet, of which ten feet in width on each side was sidewalk. The grading did not touch the sidewalks, and about four feet in width…
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