City of Williamsport v. Beck

Citations

• 128 Pa. 147
• 18 A. 329
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 777

Syllabus

<p>1. While the cost of the original paving of a city street may be assessed against properties abutting thereon, as a species of taxation for the special benefit accruing, the re-paving of such roadway being a purely public duty for the general benefit, the cost thereof cannot be imposed upon abutting properties, even though the cost of the original paving had been paid out of the city treasury.</p> <p>2. If an assessment for paving a city street in front of an abutting property be invalid or defective, either from the omission to comply with the requirements of the act of May 1, 1876, P. L. 94, or from the want of authority in the city oficiáis to levy it, such invalidity or defect is not cured by the provisions of §§ 2, 8, act of May 24, 1887, P. L. 261.*</p>