Donley v. City of Pittsburgh

Citations

• 147 Pa. 348
• 23 A. 394
• 1892 Pa. LEXIS 849

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Act of May 16, 1891.</p> <p>The act of May 16, 1891, P. L. 71, providing for assessments on property owners for street improvements made under the void acts of June 14, 1887, P. L. 386, and May 16,1889, P. L. 228, is constitutional. The property owners having received the benefits of the improvements, the legislature had the clear right to provide for the assessments, thus legalizing what it might previously have ordered.</p> <p>Title of act. Art. Ill, §3 of constitution of 1874.</p> <p>The purposes of the act of May 16, 1891, entitled “An Act, authorizing 4he ascertainment, levy, assessment and collection of the costs, damages and expenses of municipal improvements, including the grading, paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving of any street, lane or alley or parts thereof completed or now in process of completion and also the costs, damages and expenses of the construction of any sewer completed or now in process of completion and authorizing the completion of any such improvement,” are sufficiently stated in its title, and the act does not violate article IH., sec. 3 of the constitution of 1874.</p>