Scranton v. Beckett's Estate

Citations

• 17 Pa. Super. 296
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 306

Syllabus

<p>Sewers — Assessment—Aet of May 23, 1889, P. L. 312 — Foot-front rule.</p> <p>Property on the line of a sewer cannot be assessed for a greater portion of the cost of the sewer than its frontage upon the improvement bears to the total frontage of the lots of private owners thereon, if the assessment is made according to the foot-front rule.</p> <p>In a proceeding to enforce an assessment for the construction of a sewer an affidavit of defense is sufficient which avers that the whole cost for so much of the sewer as was north of a certain street had been assessed against the lots of the defendant situate on the south side of a court, and that no part of the cost of the sewer had been assessed upon the property .of private owners situate on the other side of the court, and directly abutting on the sewer. The fact that the latter property had been assessed for a sewer on another street is immaterial.</p>