Smith v. Wilkinsburg Borough
Citations
- 172 Pa. 121
- 33 A. 371
- 1895 Pa. LEXIS 741
Syllabus
<p>Municipal corporations — Arbitration—Power to submit to arbitration— Borough.</p> <p>Unless restrained by positive enactment municipal corporations possess inherent power to submit disputed claims to the arbitrament of referees, and they are as much bound by such submissions and the awards made in pursuance thereof as are natural persons.</p> <p>Arbitration — Submission—Award—Borough.</p> <p>Where a borough agrees to submit to arbitration the amount of ‘ ‘ equitable compensation ” to which certain property owners who are compelled to contribute to a general system of sewerage are entitled, notwithstanding the fact that they have already paid assessments for a sewer in front of their property, the arbitrators may determine the amount which such owners are equitably entitled to receive, although they have no legal claims against the borough.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- stating that “an intervenor cannot maintain claims or defenses which [are] not in subordination to and in recognition of the propriety of’ the original action
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Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams
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