Borough of Beltzhoover v. Maple

Citations

• 130 Pa. 335
• 18 A. 650
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1189

Syllabus

<p>1. Under § 2, act of April 3, 1851, P. L. 320, upon the failure of an abutting lot-owner to construct a board walk after notice so to do, the borough may construct it ahd file a lien for the cost thereof, with 20 per cent additional as a penalty: Smithy. Kingston Bor., 120 Pa. 357.</p> <p>2. The fact that a separate lien is filed against each lot of a block of contiguous lots, will not affect the validity of the liens, and the court may order that a final judgment in a suit on one lien shall be a test of the validity of all of them.</p> <p>3. When liens ¿pe filed against lots in a borough block which are unimproved by the erection of buildings upon them, their validity is not affected by the fact that the foot-front rule was adopted as a means of ascertaining the cost of the improvement chargeable to each lot.</p>