Main Street, Big Run Borough

Citations

• 137 Pa. 590
• 20 A. 711
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 999

Syllabus

<p>1. Viewers appointed under § 1, act of April 22,1856, P. L. 525, to assess damages and benefits for the widening, etc., of a part of a borough street, are not confined in the assessment of such benefits to properties abutting upon that part of the street embraced in the proceeding, but have power to make such assessment upon land lying anywhere along the line of the whole street.</p> <p>2. Wherefore, persons owning land which abuts upon the line of the same street, though upon a different part of it from that to which such a proceeding relates, are not disinterested freeholders, qualified as viewers under the provisions of said act; and, if the service of such disqualified viewers appear upon the record, the proceedings will be set aside' on appeal.</p>