In re Orkney Street

Citations

• 9 Pa. Super. 604
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 83

Syllabus

<p>Hoad law — Assessment of benefits — Opening streets.</p> <p>No assessment lor benefits resulting from opening of a street, theretofore terminating as a cul de sac, can be legally imposed upon properties not abutting upon the line of the improvement as projected and which is subject of the improvement. Verona Borough’s Appeal, 4 Pa. Superior Ct. 608, followed.</p> <p>Constitutional law — Street improvements — Act of 1864.</p> <p>The Act of April 1, 1864, P. L. 206, in so far as it confers or attempts to confer power to assess benefits for municipal improvements upon properties not abutting upon the line thereof, is unconstitutional.</p>