Weiss v. Bor. of South Bethlehem
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Northampton County
No. 153 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 16 December Term 1887, C. P. On October 24, 1887, Francis Weiss entered his appeal from the report of viewers, appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county, to assess the damages arising from the opening of Front street as a public street of the borough of South Bethlehem, which report awarded “ no damages.” Issue.
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No. 153 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 16 December Term 1887, C. P. On October 24, 1887, Francis Weiss entered his appeal from the report of viewers, appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county, to assess the damages arising from the opening of Front street as a public street of the borough of South Bethlehem, which report awarded “ no damages.” Issue. Before trial Francis Weiss, the plaintiff, died, and his executors, Francis Weiss, Jr., and George H. Myers, were submitted. At the trial, on March 29, 1889, the following facts were shown :■ In 1887 Francis…
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Me. Justice Green :
The learned court below, in answer to the defendant’s first point, distinctly charged the jury that if the plaintiff’s ground in question had been used by the public as a street continuously and uninterruptedly for twenty-one years, prior to its adoption as a street, that is evidence of a public dedication. In answer to the second point of the defendant, the jury was instructed that if the public had an easement upon the twenty feet strip in question, to use it as a public street, the opening or adoption of the street within the lines of the easement would be no…
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