Appeal of Borough

Citations

• 4 Pa. Super. 608
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 173

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Assessment of benefits — Opening streets.</p> <p>No assessment for benefits resulting'from the opening of a street can be legally imposed upon properties not abutting upon the line of the street which is the subject of the improvement.</p> <p>Front street, in the borough of Verona, extended for a certain distance southerly from South street in said borough, terminating, however, as a cul de sac, it was extended by proceedings under the Act of May 16,1891, F. L. 76, and the jury assessed benefits against certain owners of properties fronting on said Front street, but not on the newly extended portion thereof. i7eM,>that such assessments are illegal, as the properties do not adjoin directly upon the improvement.</p>