Benton Township Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 23, April T., 1909, by G. G. Rough et ah, from order of Q. S. Lackawanna Co., April Term, 1907, No. 287, sustaining exceptions to report of viewers In re Road in Benton Township. Exceptions to report of road viewers. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order sustaining exceptions to report of viewers.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The appellants have not in their paper-book printed the petition for the appointment of viewers, upon which this proceeding is founded. The jurisdiction of the court to appoint the viewers or confirm any report which they might make was dependent on the terms of that petition. The petition must describe the termini of the proposed road with reasonable accuracy, and the • termini of the road as located by the viewers must be in substantial compliance with the petition: Dunbar Township Road, 12 Pa. Superior Ct. 491; Crescent Township Road, 18 Pa. Superior Ct. 160. The…
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- Road in Dunbar TownshipSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- Crescent Township RoadSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
- In re Public RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1887
- Bachman's RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1833
- In re the Opening of Wharton StreetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1865
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