Nether Providence Township Sewer District Assessment Case

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This is an appeal by property owners from a decree of the learned court below dismissing certain exceptions to a report of a jury of view filed in a proceeding brought by the first class Township of Nether Providence, Delaware County, to assess benefits resulting from the construction of a sewer.

On April 8, 1937, the township commissioners passed ordinance No. 183, providing for the construction of a sewer system in cooperation with the Works Progress Administration. It was stipulated therein that the properties accommodated or benefited should be assessed for the cost…