Monessen-Charleroi Bridge

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 318
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 120

Syllabus

<p>Bridges — Freeing of bridges — Abolition of tolls — County bridges —Act of May 8, 1876, P. L. 181.</p> <p>The Act of May 8, 1876, P. L. 131, entitled “An Act to authorize the acquisition by the several counties of this Commonwealth, for the use of the county, of bridges erected over rivers, creeks and rivulets, and for the abolition of tolls thereon,” has no application to a case where the bridge to be freed connects highways running parallel to a river on both sides thereof, and crosses the river at a place where prior to the incorporation of the company and the erection of the bridge in question, the river was not crossed by a highway.</p>