Shobert v. Bloomsburg

Citations

• 74 Pa. Super. 246
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 131

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Opening streets — Eminent domain — Security—• Taxing power — Borough of Bloomsburg.</p> <p>Unless otherwise provided by statute, the power of taxation in a municipal corporation is sufficient security for property taken by said corporation, under the power of eminent domain.</p> <p>Where a borough by proper ordinance exercised its power to appropriate land in the widening of its streets, and entered upon the sidewalk of one of the adjacent property owners for the purpose of making it part of the roadway, and constructed the street, the appropriation was complete and the property owner was entitled to have his damages, if any, ascertained and determined.</p> <p>The Acts of May 16, 1891, P. L. 75; June 19, 1918, P. L. 585, and April 9, 1915, P. L. 67, relating to the laying out, opening, widening, etc., of streets and alleys apply to the Town of Blooms-burg, although it was incorporated under a special act of assembly.</p>