City Improvement Co. v. Pittsburgh

Citations

• 234 Pa. 486
• 83 A. 408
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 676

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Widening street — Location of street — Ordinances.</p> <p>Where a city street forty feet wide connects with an alley twenty feet wide, and the two constitute a continuous opened, existing and travelled public thoroughfare, the city has no power by locating and relocating ordinances to locate what purports to be a new street sixty feet wide, but which in fact merely widens the existing street and alley. If the city thinks it proper to widen the street and alley it must do so in the manner provided by the statutes relating to the widening of streets. Hawkins v. Pittsburgh, 220 Pa. 7, followed.</p>