Anderson Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

By this appeal, our Court is called upon to decide the important issue of whether or not appellee, Delaware River Port Authority (Authority), may claim the Commonwealth’s immunity from liability for consequential damages resulting from its activities and thereby defeat appellant property owner’s petition for the appointment of a board of view to assess such damages.

According to the stipulation of facts by the parties, appellant is the owner of a dwelling located in South Philadelphia. By various resolutions adopted in 1954, Authority condemned certain property…