Hamilton Township Road

Sheely, P. J.,

Prior to 1919 it was “the settled rule of this state that a public road must begin and end in a public highway or a place of public resort: Miller’s Road Case, 9 S. & R. 35; West Pikeland Road, 63 Pa. 471”: Schuylkill River Road, 19 Pa. Superior Ct. 376 (1902). The distinction between a public and a private road was there stated to be that a private road is one with a public terminus and a private terminus, while a “public road must have a public terminus at the beginning and ending points”.

The Act of June 20, 1919, P. L. 509, 36 PS §1921, provided that a petition for a road…