Allison v. Bigelow

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 219
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 99

Syllabus

<p>Road law — State roads — Damages—Consequential damages.</p> <p>Where a portion of an owner’s land is taken under Section 16 of the Act of May 31, 1911, P. L. 468, establishing a State Highway Department and providing for a system of State roads, the owner may recover damages not only for the land actually taken, but also damages resulting from the fact that the construction of a State road cut off from the main portion of his farm and its buildings a considerable acreage of watered land to which he would have to drive his live stock across the State road.</p> <p>There is nothing in the letter or spirit of the Constitution to prohibit a legislative enactment that the State itself in the construction of great public improvements for the benefit of the people at large should not respond to the same liability as is imposed upon the great municipalities of the Commonwealth through whose agency the government of the State is largely exercised.</p>