In re Boggs Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Centre county; Of January Term, 1886, No. 288. The record showed the following: March 11th, 1884: Petition of Edward Smith, Geo.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Centre county; Of January Term, 1886, No. 288. The record showed the following: March 11th, 1884: Petition of Edward Smith, Geo. H. Lyman, and other citizens and voters of Boggs township presented, setting forth that at August Sessions, 1882, commissioners’were appointed to divide said township into two election districts ; that said commission reported a division of the township into two election districts by a line running nearly east and west, which report was, on the 27th day of April, 1888, confirmed absolutely, and a decree…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
*148This' record'discloses a single and very narrow question. The exceptants contend that the court below had no jurisdiction to confirm the report of viewers appointed under a petition asking' for a change in the election districts of Boggs township. The petition sets forth a previous division of the township into two districts made in 1883, and alleged that the division so made was unequal, placing about 120 voters in one district and over 400 in the other, and alleged, also, that the division was inconvenient and burthensome on account of the topography of the township and the direction of the…
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