Beltz v. Pittsburg
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 110, April T., 1904, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1903, No. 113, affirming judgment of justice of the peace in case of John Beltz v. City of Pittsburg. Appeal from justice of the peace. The material portions of the justice’s transcript were as follows : “ A.nd now September 16, 1903, at 3 o’clock P. M. parties appear.
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Appeal, No. 110, April T., 1904, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1903, No. 113, affirming judgment of justice of the peace in case of John Beltz v. City of Pittsburg. Appeal from justice of the peace. The material portions of the justice’s transcript were as follows : “ A.nd now September 16, 1903, at 3 o’clock P. M. parties appear. Issac Carver, chief plumbing inspector, sworn and claims that defendant violated an act of assembly approved June 7, 1901, while erecting four new houses, No. 7010 Kedron street, city of Pittsburg, by failing to put in proper…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
The power of the legislature to classify the cities of the commonwealth, and to legislate for each class separately, is too well settled to be questioned. This power is based on “ a necessity springing from manifest peculiarities, clearly distinguishing those of one class from each of the other classes, and imperatively demanding legislation for each class', separately, that would be useless and detrimental to the others Ayars’s Appeal, 122 Pa. 266; Weinman v. Railway Co., 118 Pa. 192; McCarthy v. Com., 110 Pa. 243. The proper basis of such classification is population,…
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