Wabash Avenue

Citations

• 26 Pa. Super. 305
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 310

Syllabus

<p>Practice, Superior Court — Appeals—Assignments of error.</p> <p>An assignment of error to the effect that the court' erred in dismissing the exceptions to the report of viewers,” without setting forth any of the exceptions, violates Rule XIV of the Superior Court.</p> <p>Road law — Paving and grading — Ordinances—Contracts—Different portions of same street.</p> <p>A city may elect by separate ordinances and separate contracts to pave and grade different portions of the same street. If it does so, property abutting on one portion cannot be assessed for the improvement on the other portion.</p> <p>Councils of a city have the sole right to designate what streets shall be paved and the character of the paving.</p> <p>A contract between a city and those who do work for it is not made invalid, although it may become improvident, because of a covenant that the city shall have power to add to or diminish the work called for by the specifications.</p> <p>After a city has accepted a paved street from a contractor, a property owner cannot escape payment of his assessment for the paving because of irregularities in the details of the manner of advertising and bidding, if there has been no bad faith in awarding the contracts.</p>