City of Erie v. Piece of Land Fronting on Eighteenth Street

Citations

• 171 Pa. 610
• 33 A. 378
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 1348

Syllabus

<p>Municipal lien—Streets—Paving— Contract— Ordinance—Street railways.</p> <p>Where an ordinance and a contract based upon the ordinance call for the paving of a street “ with asphalt from curb to curb,” an owner of abutting property is not relieved from liability for his proportion of the cost of the improvement by the fact that, after the contract was made, the municipality arranged with a street railway company which was bound to pave the portion of the street between its tracks and one foot on each side thereof, that the company should pave with stone so much of the street as it was bound to maintain.</p>