Grant Street

Citations

• 17 Pa. Super. 459
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 336

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Assessment for benefits — Act of May 16,1891, P. L. 75 — Sewers.</p> <p>Assessment for benefits to pay for local improvements can only be defended on the ground that the benefits are local and essentially peculiar to the property assessed, and this can only be the case where the property assessed abuts directly upon the line of improvement.</p> <p>Where a branch sewer is constructed on a streetupon the petition of property owners on the street, and for the peculiar and almost exclusive benefit of the property abutting on the street, the fact that it was necessary in order to reach the main sewer, to conduct the branch sewer for a short distance through an intersecting street, is not a valid reason for not treating the improvement as an entirety in the assessment of benefit.</p>