Beckert v. City of Allegheny
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 185. In Equity. This appeal was from a decree refusing an injunction, and dismissing complainant’s bill in equity.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 185. In Equity. This appeal was from a decree refusing an injunction, and dismissing complainant’s bill in equity. The bill was filed by E. Beckert and others, against the city of Allegheny and D. McEerron, treasurer of said city, and was in substance as follows:— That by “An Act relative to grading, paving, curbing and otherwise improving Troy Hill road, in the city of Allegheny,” approved May 10th 1871 (Pamph. L. 665), the councils of said city were authorized to grade,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
Frederick Beckert and some twenty-six others, citizens and taxpayers of Reserve township, in the county of Allegheny, preferred their bill to the Common Pleas of said county, praying that the city of Allegheny be restrained from proceeding to collect certain assessments made upon their several properties in said township, for the payment of the cost of constructing a certain road, known as the Troy Hill road, situate wholly within the corporate limits of said city. The authority under which the city councils professed to act, in the making of the assessments complained of, Avill be found in…
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