City of Scranton v. Levers

Citations

• 200 Pa. 56
• 49 A. 980
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 440

Syllabus

<p>j. Municipal liens—Sewers—Foot front rule—Assessments—Affidavit of defense.</p> <p>On a scire facias sur municipal lien for a sewer, an affidavit of defense is sufficient which avers that the claim was made under the Act of May 23, 1889, P. L. 312, by which the assessments are required to be “ equal upon all the front feet of the lands along which the séwer runs,” but that in fact a large proportion of the land liable to assessment in front of which the sewer ran was not assessed at all, wherefore the assessment on which the claim is founded is illegal and void.</p>