Pittsburg v. Cluley

Citations

• 66 Pa. 449
• 1870 Pa. LEXIS 300

Syllabus

<p>1. Acts of 1857 and 1864 provided for paving, &c., the streets, <sco., in Pittsburg. The Act of 1857 provided a lien against lot-holders for setting curbstones and paving the sidewalks. The Act of 1864 authorized the city to pave the streets and set them with curbstones and to charge the cost to the lot-holders, and declared that paving and repaving sidewalks and curbstones are within the Act of 1857. A claim was filed for “grading, paving and setting with curbstones within six months past that part of Centre avenue,” &c., in pursuance of the Act of 1864. Held, that the claim was sufficient although it did not specify whether the work was to the sidewalks or the cartway.</p> <p>2. The Act of 1864 directs the regulator to make assessment of the expense, give notice by publication where the assessment may be seen and parties have an opportunity of having mistakes corrected, and after correction, the regulator shall give the assessment to the treasurer, who shall notify the parties charged, and if not paid in thirty days the city solicitor shall file a lien, in the same manner as mechanics’ liens, &c. It is not necessary that the solicitor should state all the particulars as in a'mechanics’ lien.</p> <p>3. The Mechanics’ Lien Law furnishes only a general not a specific rule of proceeding under these acts.</p>