Ellwood Lumber Co. v. Pittsburgh

Citations

• 269 Pa. 94
• 112 A. 19
• 1920 Pa. LEXIS 773

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Grade of street — Ordinance of councils — Municipality — Damages.</p> <p>Where a municipality enacts an ordinance for the opening of a street, and a landowner thereupon erects a building at a grade below the natural surface of the ground, and thereafter the municipality establishes a grade following substantially the natural surface, the damages sustained by the property owner must be determined by considering the difference in value of the property before and after the improvement as affected by the grade fixed by council, and not by the difference in value as affected by the grade at which the owner erected his building.</p>