Dorrance v. Borough of Dorranceton

Citations

• 181 Pa. 164
• 37 A. 200
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 521

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Opening streets — Acts of April 3, 1851, May 16, 1891, and May 22, 1895.</p> <p>The Act of May 22, 1895, P. L. 106, amending the Act of May 16, 1891, P. L. 75, relating to the opening of streets in boroughs, in so far as it regulates procedure, supersedes and replaces those parts of the general borough law of April 3, 1851, P. L. 320, in conflict therewith.</p> <p>An ordinance of a borough for the opening of streets adopted and enacted according to the provisions of the act of April 3, 1851, and not of May 22, 1895, is invalid and void.</p> <p>Constitutional law — Statutes—Title of act — Act of May 22, 1895.</p> <p>The act of May 22, 1895, entitled “ An act amending section nine of an act, entitled ‘ An act in relation to the laying out, opening, widening, straightening, extending or vacating streets and alleys, and the construction of bridges in the several municipalities of this commonwealth, the grading, paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving streets and alleys, providing for ascertaining the damages to private property resulting therefrom, the assessment of the damages, costs and expenses thereof upon the property benefited, and the construction of sewers and payment of the damages, costs and expenses thereof, including damages to private property resulting therefrom,’ approved May 16, A. D. 1891, enabling municipal corporations to lay out, open, widen, extend and vacate streets or alleys, upon petition or without petition of property owners,” does not violate article III., section 3 of the constitution, which directs that “ no bill, except general appropriation bills, shall be passed containing more than one subject,which shall be clearly expressed in its title.”</p>