Washington County v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 238 Pa. 240
• 86 A. 71
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 950

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Turnpike roads — Bridges—Acceptance of street— Vacation of street.</p> <p>1. Bridge street, within the limits of Monongahela City, in Washington County, though embraced with the limits of the city after its incorporation, was never one of the actual streets of Monongahela City, but was part of the old turnpike bridge across the Monongahela river. It became the property of Washington County under condemnation proceedings in 1904 and was lawfully vacated in 1907 by the proceeding consequent upon the appointment by the Courts of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny and Washington Counties of viewers to report on the vacation of the old turnpike bridge and the location of a site for a new one.</p> <p>2. Where it appears from sufficient and competent evidence that an.approach to a bridge is in fact the property of the company owning the bridge, it is immaterial that scriveners in deeds described the approach as a street, or that it had been placed upon a city map as a street, or that it had been in part paved by the city under a special contract with property owners.</p>