City of Chester ex rel. Ross v. Eyre

Citations

• 181 Pa. 642
• 37 A. 837
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 593

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Municipalities— Ordinances — Declarations of members of council — Evidence.</p> <p>An ordinance of councils is the proper legal expression of a city’s authority in reference to all matters of grading, paving .and curbing the streets, and such ordinance cannot be abrogated by the declarations of the members of any of the committees of council.</p> <p>Municipalities — Ratification of contract.</p> <p>A city which has authority to authorize a contract for curbing, but does not expressly do so, may, after the work has been performed by the contractor, validate the action.</p> <p>Municipal lien — Curbing—Division of lots — Description.</p> <p>A municipal lien for curbing, filed against several contiguous lots as one tract of land, will be sustained where the lots are all owned by one person, with no division lines between them, and are used together as the curtilage of a mansion house which stood in about the center of the tract.</p>