Louderback v. Warner

Citations

• 37 Pa. Super. 136
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 251

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Meadow companies — Assessments — Membership — Penn’s Manor Meadow Company.</p> <p>The Penn’s Manor Meadow Company, a corporation chartered under the special Act of March 4, 1815, 6 Sm. L. 257, rechartered by the special Act of April 30, 1855, P. L. (1857) 738, and reincorporated under the Act of April 29,1874, P. L. 73, has no power to levy an assessment upon a person who is not a member of the corporation, and whose land, although a part of the area originally surveyed for protection by the company’s works, is. not touched by the work for which the assessment was levied.</p> <p>Every statute which authorizes assessments upon the owners for improvement of their lands, ought to be strictly construed. If it admit of two constructions, one consistent with the bill of rights, the other repugnant, it should receive the former.</p>