Pennsylvania Act 1874-99 — DAMAGES FROM ROADS AND HIGHWAYS, ASSESSMENT

Act text

DAMAGES FROM ROADS AND HIGHWAYS, ASSESSMENT
                  Act of May 14, 1874, P.L. 164, No. 99               Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to the assessment of damages arising from the opening
        of roads and highways and the construction of bridges.

        Section 1.  Viewers to procure release, or assess damages
        It shall be the duty of all persons appointed in the Several
     Counties of this Commonwealth to view and review any public or
     private road or bridge, if they shall decide in favor of
     locating said road or bridge, to endeavor to procure from the
     persons over whose land such location may be made releases from
     all claims for damages that might arise from the opening of such
     road or the building of such bridge; and in every case where
     said viewers shall fail to procure such releases, and it shall
     appear to them that any damages will be sustained, it shall be
     their duty to assess the damages and make report thereof, signed
     by a majority of their number, and return the same, together
     with all releases obtained, to the court of quarter sessions,
     and the damages so assessed shall be conclusive, or may be
     subject to appeal, review or modification, as may be provided by
     existing laws in the different Counties of this Commonwealth.
     1874, May 14, P.L. 164, Sec. 1.