...section 8 of article XVI: " Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make...by the construction or enlargement of their works, highwavs or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury or...

...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,...

...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...

...Pennsylvania provides that "Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make...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...

...present constitution: "Municipal and other corporations and individuals, invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make...highways, or improvements; which compensation shall be paiil or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction." It is admitted that the then existing...

...Constitution, which provides that "municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make...works, highways or improvements, which compensation ^luiil be paid or secured before such taking, injury or destruction." The provision for an actual taking,...

...of Art. 16) says that "municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make...construction or enlargement of their works, highways or improvements.1 ' damages, must recover them under this provision, as it seems to us. According to the...

...provides as follows: "Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make...destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their work, highways or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury...

..."municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private properly for public use shall make just compensation for property...enlargement of their works, highways or improvements." Although this work of the defendant is within the spirit and reason, it is not within the letter of...