New Brighton Borough v. Biddell
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 74, April T., 1900, by plaintiff, in suit of the Borough of New Brighton against Selina Biddell and W. F. L. Biddell, from order of C. P. Beaver Co., Sept. T., 1898, No. 291, discharging rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Opinion by W. D. Porter, J. Sci. fa. sur municipal claim. Material facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Rule for judgment discharged. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 74, April T., 1900, by plaintiff, in suit of the Borough of New Brighton against Selina Biddell and W. F. L. Biddell, from order of C. P. Beaver Co., Sept. T., 1898, No. 291, discharging rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Opinion by W. D. Porter, J. Sci. fa. sur municipal claim. Material facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Rule for judgment discharged. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were (1) in holding that the act of assembly, entitled “ An act providing for the creation and regulation of municipal liens and the proceedings…
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Opinion by
W. D. Porter, J.,
The town council of the borough of New Brighton passed an ordinance, which was duly approved, providing for the paving *210of Broadway, a public street in said borough, with bricks, from curb to curb, and that two thirds of the cost of the improvement should be assessed upon the property abutting upon the street, in accordance with the foot front rule, as provided by the Act of April 23, 1889, P. L. 44. A contract for the performance of the work was duly let and the street was paved in accordance with the terms of the ordinance. The lot of the defendant, now in…
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