...municipal as well as other corporations, in which is vested the right of eminent domain, are required to make just compensation for property taken, injured,...enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements. This is an advance upon the limitation of the right of eminent domain as found in the Bill of Rights,...

...(1888) 117 Pa. 647, 2 Am. St. Rep. 713, 12 Atl. 577, under a constitutional provision declaring that "municipal and other corporations and individuals...secured before such taking, injury or destruction," a county was held liable for consequential damages resulting from the erection of bridge abutments...

...Sec. 242. Just compensation to be made m condemning private property; right of appeal; jury trial. Municipal and other corporations, and individuals...compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by them; which compensation shall be paid before such taking, or paid or secured, at the election of such...

...front of the property is unchanged, under a constitutional provision requiring the municipality to make just compensation for property "taken, injured,...or destroyed" by the construction or enlargement of its works, highways, or improvements. See Mellor v. Philadelphia (1894) 160 Pa. 614, 28 Atl. 991, where...

...theretofore under the law. Article xvi, section 8, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania provides that "Municipal and other corporations and individuals...construction or enlargement of their works, highways and improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury or destruction."...

...corporations, invested with the right of taking private property for public use, to make prepayment of compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed...enlargement of their works, highways or improvements (Art. xiv, § 7). has no application where the municipal authorities of a city, in the exercise of...

...Co., 152 Ala. 320, 44 South. 471. Section 7 of article 14 of the Constitution of 1875 provided that: "Municipal and other corporations and individuals...privilege of taking private property for public use,. [Stocks v. City of iiadsden.] shall make just compensation for the property taken, injured, or destroyed...

...without authority of law and without just compensation being first made or secured, and that corporations invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make just compensation for the property taken, injured or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways...

...complainant recovered judgment. The constitution of Pennsylvania contains the following provision: "Municipal and other corporations and individuals,...secured before such taking, injury, or destruction." A majority of the court, by PAXSON, J., concedes that the diminution of value of the complainant's...

...constitution. The flrst part of section 242 of the present constitution reads as follows: "Municipal or other corporations and individuals invested with the...compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by them: which compensation shall be paid. Iwfore such taking, or paid or secured at the election of such...