In re State Street
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
From the Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county. A petition was presented for the extension of State Street along a certain line: the extension not to ex^gd thirty feet in width. The viewers reported a street varying in the courses from the line mentioned in the petition, and fixing the width at sixty feet, which was confirmed. The exceptions are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBurnside, J.
The proceedings in this case were instituted under and in pursuance of the act of the 9th of January, 1817, entitled “ An act for the better regulation of the borough of HarrisburgParaph. Laws, 13. The act directs how streets and alleys shall be laid out in the borough, and where no special provision is detailed in the act, it is the duty of the courts, in order to' carry out the object and intention of the legislature, and accommodate the public, to assimilate the proceedings to those under our general road system: 1 Barr, 355. It is not alleged but that the proceedings have been in strict…
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