Pusey's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 249. This was an appeal of William B. Pusey, for himself and his wife, in proceedings to open Charles street in the city of Allegheny. In March 1874, the city councils of Allegheny passed an ordinance for the opening of Charles street, and appointed viewers to assess damages and appraise benefits to the property owners.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 249. This was an appeal of William B. Pusey, for himself and his wife, in proceedings to open Charles street in the city of Allegheny. In March 1874, the city councils of Allegheny passed an ordinance for the opening of Charles street, and appointed viewers to assess damages and appraise benefits to the property owners. After the confirmation of their report by the councils, one Kimberlin took an appeal to the Quarter Sessions. The court appointed new viewers, and upon the filing of their report…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
This was a proceeding under an ordinance of the city of Allegheny to open Charles street, brought into the Court of Quarter Sessions by an appeal from the report of viewers appointed by the councils of the city to assess damages and appraise benefits to the owners of the property along the route of the street. On the 9th of October 1875, William B. Pusey, for himself and his wife as owners, presented his petition for an appeal and for a jury trial to assess their damages; upon which the Court of Quarter Sessions made an order certifying the record of the case into the Court of Common Pleas,…
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