Woodward v. City of Pittsburg

Citations

• 194 Pa. 193
• 45 A. 91
• 1899 Pa. LEXIS 758

Syllabus

<p>Boad law — Open streets — Boundaries—Sale of lots according to plot-r-Act of May 9, 1889.</p> <p>In a proceeding against a city to recover damages for the opening of a street if it appears that, more than twenty-one years prior to the actual opening of the street by the city, the owner’s grantor took title to the land facing on the street according to a plan of lots, the owner is entitled under the Act of May 9, 1889, P. L. 173, to damages for the land taken, if any have been sustained. Quicksall v. Philadelphia, 177 Pa. 801, followed.</p> <p>Boad law — Streets—Plan of lots — Act of May 9, 1889.</p> <p>Where a person lays out a plan of lots and makes conveyances according to such plan, and subsequently, after becoming a lunatic, his committee obtains an order to sell the land according to tiie same plan of lots, which is annexed to the petition, the limitation under the Act of May 9, 1889, P. L. 173, as to the land conveyed by the owner himself, runs from the date of the conveyance.</p> <p>Deed — Boundaries—Streets.</p> <p>A conveyance of land to a street on a plan of lots according to which the conveyance is made gives the grantee a fee to the middle of the street.</p>