Strausz v. McKeesport

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is an appeal from the award of a board of viewers assessing damages for change of grade of the street in front of plaintiffs’ property. The claim of appellant city is that the court erroneously permitted recovery upon the basis that the grade was changed for the entire width of the street 40 feet between property lines, whereas, in fact, only the grade of the cartway 24 feet wide was changed, and there was no alteration made in the grade of the footwalk of plaintiffs’ property. The fact is that only the grade of the cartway was altered and the footwalk…