...discerned such a reason in Article XVI, § 8 of the Pennsylvania constitution of 1874, which provides: "Municipal and other corporations and individuals...enlargement of their works, highways or improvements . . ." In passing upon this case they thought that this provision of the Pennsylvania constitution...

...of damages prescribed by Art. XVI, § 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution (1874), which provides that "Municipal and other corporations and individuals...enlargement of their works, highways or improvements . . .," that section, as construed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania before the adoption of the...

...Township. Section 8 of Article 16 of the constitution which provides that municipal and other corporations shall make just compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by the construction of their works, highways or improvements does not apply to townships. John Rupp and Evan Holben for...

...there should be made "just compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by the destruction or enlargement of their works, highways or improvements,...secured before such taking, injury or destruction". It was held there that the meaning of the constitution was "to give a remedy merely for legal wrongs...

...other corporations Ala.) 6l SOUTHERN REPORTER. and individuals, taking property for public use, to make just compensation for property taken, injured,...or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of its works, highways, or improvements, gives one whose property is injured by improvements, etc., made...

...Injury From Prudent Construction and Operation. — Under Constitution, section 242, providing that corporations and individuals invested with the privilege...public use shall make just compensation for property injured or destroyed by them, a railroad company, though bound by law to furnish suitable stock pens,...

...interest thereon from August 4, 1897, until paid." By section 242 of the Constitution it is provided: "Municipal and other corporations and individuals...taking private property for public use shall make just compensation^for the property taken, injured or destroyed by them; which compensation shall be paid...

...protect property owners from injustice and wrong on the part of municipal or other corporations or individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, and should be given a liberal construction by the courts in order to make it effectual in the protection...

...right of eminent domain imparted to it by the State. By its terms it imposes-a restraint only upon corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, and extends the right to compensation, previously existing, for property taken, to compensation for...

...Taken Under Right of Eminent Domain Current Recommended Municipal and other corporations No Change, and individuals invested with the privilege of taking...secured before such taking, injury or destruction. The General Assembly is hereby prohibited from depriving any person of an appeal from any preliminary assessment...