Dormont Borough

Citations

• 64 Pa. Super. 134
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 258

Syllabus

<p>Hoad law—Paving portion of public road in borough—Assessments on abutting owners—Liability pf borough—County road— Act of May 11,1911, P. L. £44.</p> <p>Where the county commissioners of a county and the authorities of a borough cooperate to pave a width of sixteen feet of a public road extending through the borough, under the Act of May 11,1911, P. L. 244, and agree that the county shall pay two-thirds of such improvement and the borough pay one-third thereof, abutting owners although they petitioned for the improvement, cannot be assessed for the one-third cost thereof payable by the borough.</p> <p>In such a case where the borough at the same time improves the portion of the road or street outside of the strip of sixteen feet paved, the borough may impose the cost of the latter improvement upon the abutting owners, but in proceedings to assess benefits, the width of the road outside of the strip of sixteen feet paved, must be made to appear as also the cost of the improvement outside the limit of such strip, so that no portion of the cost of paving the strip shall be -imposed upon the abutting owners.</p>