Bruker v. Carlisle Borough

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Hoeace Stern,

The town of Carlisle was laid out in 1751 according to a plan of Thomas Penn, then Proprietor of Pennsylvania. In a letter to Richard Peters, Secretary of the Province, he wrote that in the center of Car-lisle he would have a Square and that “the Court House may be in the middle of one side and the Gaal in any place near, there may be a places I think in the middle of the Center Square for a Market, or if that will take off. too much of the lots, a lot may be given at the rént of a Shilling as for the other publick uses for that purpose, ...” A public…