Sterrett School Sub-District v. City of Pittsburg

Citations

• 183 Pa. 225
• 38 A. 1103
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 744

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Change of grade — Damages.</p> <p>On an appeal from a report of jurors assessing benefits and awarding damages for change of grade of a street, where the property owner denies that his property was benefited and avers that the damages were inadequate, the evidence must be confined to the condition of the particular property in controversy, and cannot be extended so as to show the size, character and condition of other properties abutting upon the line of the improvement.</p> <p>The Supreme Court will not reverse a judgment on a verdict in a road case for damages for change of grade, on the ground that the verdict was excessive.</p>