Fort Pitt Gas Co. v. Borough of Sewickley

Citations

• 198 Pa. 201
• 47 A. 957
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 760

Syllabus

<p>Natural gas companies—Relaying and repairing of pipes—Boroughs— Act of May 29, 1885, P. L. 29, sec. 12.</p> <p>A dispute which arises from the denial oí the right of a natural gas company to make excavations in a street in order to reach and repair its pipes without paying a certain license fee to a borough, is a dispute within the meaning of the twelfth section oí the act of May 29, 1885, which gives the courts power to define the duties oí natural gas companies as to relaying and repairing their pipes.</p> <p>Where a borough arbitrarily and in a spirit of resentment increases a fee imposed on natural gas companies for a permit to open streets from fifty cents to $3.00 for unpaved and $5.00 for paved streets, the coui’t of common pleas may properly reduce the fee to fifty cents for unpaved and $2.00 for paAred streets.</p>