Brighton Road

• Decision Date: 02 January 1906
• Citation: 213 Pa. 521
• Parties: Brighton Road.
• Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

213 Pa. 521

Brighton Road.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 1, 1905.

January 2, 1906.

Argued Nov. 1, 1905.

Appeals, Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24, Oct. T., 1905, by Conrad Dietrich et al., from order of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Nov. T., 1902, No. 433, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers In re Brighton Road.

Before

MITCHELL, C. J., FELL, BROWN, MESTREZAT, POTTER, ELKIN and STEWART, JJ. Affirmed.

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C. C. Dickey, of Shiras & Dickey, with him T. P. Trimble, J. M. Shields, Charles W. Feigel, Samuel A. Ammon, F. C. Osborn and J. C. McCombs, for appellants.—This court has uniformly held that legislative provisions relating to municipal corporations are mandatory and must be strictly followed in order to charge the private property: Western Penna. Ry. Co. v. Allegheny, 92 Pa. 100; Hershberger v. Pittsburg, 115 Pa. 78; Fell v. Philadelphia, 81 Pa. 58; Pittsburg v. Walter, 69 Pa. 365; Morewood Ave., 159 Pa. 39; Carpenter v. Yeadon Borough, 208 Pa. 396; Bradford v. Fox, 171 Pa. 343; Erie City v. Brady, 127 Pa. 169; Beaumont v. Wilkes-Barre, 142 Pa. 198; Reading v. O'Reilly, 169 Pa. 366; Edgar v. Pittsburg, 114 Fed. Repr. 586; Malone v. Philadelphia, 147 Pa. 416; McManus v. Philadelphia, 201 Pa. 619; Hepburn v. Philadelphia, 149 Pa. 335; Pound v. Supervisors of Chippewa County, 43 Wis. 63; State v. Thomas, 7 Mo. App. 205; Cuming v. Grand Rapids, 46 Mich. 150 (9 N. W. Repr. 141); Hentig v. Gilmore, 33 Kansas, 234 (6 Pac. Repr. 304); Frosh v. Galveston, 73 Texas, 401 (11 S. W. Repr. 402).

Stephen G. Porter, city solicitor, with him W. W. Stoner and Craig Smith, for appellees, cited: Trustees of the Erie Academy v. City of Erie, 31 Pa. 515; Phila. to use of O'Rourke v. Hays, 93 Pa. 72; Philadelphia v. Gorgas, 180 Pa. 296; Shiloh Street, 165 Pa. 386; Amberson Avenue, 179 Pa. 634; Chester v. Eyre, 181 Pa. 642; Potts v. Phila., 195 Pa. 619.

PER CURIAM, January 2, 1906:

These cases involve substantially the same questions and were disposed of by the court below in one opinion on which the judgments are affirmed.