Case ID: pa_213/html/0345-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re Tioga Street.
    
      Road law — Report of viewers — Confirmation—Refusal of court to rescind confirmation — Notice.—Counsel.
    An order of court refusing to rescind an order of confirmation in a road case, on the ground that the appellant had no .notice of the hearing on exceptions, will not be reversed, where it appears that the case has been in progress for twelve years during which the appellant had represented certain property first as agent of the owner, and after the death of the owner as trustee, that the same attorney had been counsel during the whole period, and that this counsel had notice of the exceptions and participated in the hearing. In such a case the appellant cannot say that counsel was not authorized to represent him, and that he had not had a day in court.
    Argued Oct. 25,1905.
    Appeal, No. 67, Oct. T., 1905, by A. L. Rich, trustee, from order of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1892, No. 187, refusing to rescind order confirming report of jury of view In re Tioga street.
    Before Fell, Brown, Mestrezat, Potter, Elkin and Stewart, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    Rule to rescind order confirming report of jury of view.
    The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
    
      Error assigned was the order of the court.
    
      S. W. Cunningham, with him Sion B. Smith, for appellant.
    
      T. D. Carnahan, with him W. B. Rodgers, for appellee.
    January 2, 1906 :
   Per Curiam,

The proceedings in this case were under the remedial Act of May 16, 1891, P. L. 71, to ascertain and assess the damages, cost and expenses of grading and paving Tioga street. Exceptions were filed to the second report of the viewers by the appellant as agent for the owner in 1893. The owner has since died, and the title to the land has become vested in the appellant as trustee of her estate. In 1904, on notice to counsel of record, who had been in the case from the beginning, and a full hearing by the court, in which he participated, the exceptions were dismissed and the report of the viewers -was confirmed. The assignment of error is to the order of the court refusing to rescind the order of confirmation and to allow the appellant to intervene. The allegations in the petition for a rule to show cause are that the appellant had no notice of the hearing on the exceptions, that counsel was not authorized at that time to represent him, and that the city by delay had lost all right and claim against the property. We have no means of knowing what took place at the hearing on the rule, but as the counsel of record when the report was confirmed had been in the case twelve years and had once secured a reversal by this court, and as the appellant had filed exceptions and had represented as agent the same interests he now represents as trustee, we assume it was found that he was represented by counsel and had had his day in court.

The order of the court discharging the rule is affirmed.