Hutchinson v. Pittsburg
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 198 and 199, to October and November Term 1872. Two writs of scire facias, on municipal claims, were issued on the 5th of November 1869, by the City of Pittsburg against David Hutchinson. The claims were No. 29 and No. 30, and were for grading Bluff street. No. 29 was against a lot of ground on the north side of Bluff street, and fronting on said street 236f feet, running back about 236 feet to Vickroy street.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 198 and 199, to October and November Term 1872. Two writs of scire facias, on municipal claims, were issued on the 5th of November 1869, by the City of Pittsburg against David Hutchinson. The claims were No. 29 and No. 30, and were for grading Bluff street. No. 29 was against a lot of ground on the north side of Bluff street, and fronting on said street 236f feet, running back about 236 feet to Vickroy street. No. 30 was against a lot of ground on the north side of Bluff street, fronting on said street 159J feet, and running back about 187…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Read, O. J.
By the 6th section of the Act of 6th January 1864, the councils of Pittsburg are authorized whenever they may deem the same necessary to cause to be graded, regraded, paved, repaved, or macadamized any public street, lane or alley, or any parts thereof, and they are to levy and collect the cost of the same, from the owners of property bounding or abutting on the portions of the streets, lanes or alleys, thus improved, by an assessment of an equal sum per front foot of said properties; and section 7th provides, that when any grading shall…
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