Grafius' Run

Citations

• 31 Pa. Super. 638
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 274

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Land damages — Abutting property — Act of April 28, 1899, P. L. 74 — Waters.</p> <p>The Act of April 28,' 1899, P. L. 74, entitled “An Act authorising any borough or city within this Commonwealth to vacate, change, alter, or relocate the course or channel of any creek, run, or natural waterway, other than navigable streams, and for this purpose to enter upon, condemn, and take property and materials to such vacation, change, alteration, or relocation, and providing for the ascertainment and assessment of costs, damages, and expenses, as well as the levy and collection of benefits arising therefrom, and constituting such benefits a lien upon the properties upon which they are respectively assessed,” does not confer on a city power to levy any special taxes against or assess with benefits any property not abutting on the line of the public improvement.</p>