Old Tacony Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 244, Oct. T., 1905, by Lynford Knowles et al., from orders of Q. S. Phila. Co., May Term, 1895, discharging rule to amend a decree, and discharging rule for mandamus In the Matter of the Vacation of Old Tacony Road from Princeton Street to Cottman Street in the Thirty-fifth Ward. Rule to amend decree. Rule for mandamus. Frrors assigned were the orders of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Portee., J.,
The revision of that part of the confirmed plan of the city of Philadelphia, which included the portion of the Old Tacony road involved in this proceeding, was duly authorized by the ordinance of March 29,1887, and the confirmation, on April 28, 1890, of the revised plan, which struck a portion of the street *447from the plan of the city, worked a legal vacation of the part of the street thus omitted : Wetherill v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 195 Pa. 156; Carpenter v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 195 Pa. 160 ; Tabor Street, 25 Pa. Superior Ct. 355 ; Butler Street, 25…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Wetherill v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- In re Kensington & Oxford Turnpike Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881
- Butler StreetSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Carpenter v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- Road in Adams TownshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
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- Bethel Township RoadSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1910