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1 Walk. 424

Conshohocken Avenue

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 5, 1877

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1877-02-05

No. 175½ January Term, 1876. This case arose from a proceeding to assess damages caused by the opening of a State road, called Conshohocken Avenue, in Philadelphia. Amos and Wm. George originally owned the land on which this State road is located, and during their ownership the “Old Columbia Railroad” was constructed through their land, occupying the same land as that occupied by said Conshohocken Avenue subsequently.

Decided 1877-02-05

¶1The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Court below on February 5th, 1877, in the following opinion:

Per Curiam.

¶2Conceding for the purposes of this case that the Acts of 6th of January and 1st of April, 1864, Purdon’s Digest, 1289, pi. 132, 133, 134 and 135, and the practice under them, authorize the same jury to assess the damages caused by the opening of a State road, claimed by all the owners of property on the route of the road, and to assess the benefits under one petition, and in the same manner as is practised in regard to laid-out streets in the city, yet we *427know of no law or rule that will authorize the jury to decide a dispute of title between owners claiming the same piece of property. The Court alone can do this in some formal manner. On the facts as presented in the report we are not able to discover' that any substantial error was committed.

¶3Proceedings affirmed.

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