Hickory Tree Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county. At August Sessions 1859, a petition was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions, asking for the appointment of viewers to lay out a road between certain points specially described. Viewers were appointed, who reported to November Term, laying out a road, and recommending its adoption for public use. On the 22d of November the report was confirmed nisi, and the width fixed.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county. At August Sessions 1859, a petition was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions, asking for the appointment of viewers to lay out a road between certain points specially described. Viewers were appointed, who reported to November Term, laying out a road, and recommending its adoption for public use. On the 22d of November the report was confirmed nisi, and the width fixed. On the 13th day of January 1860, exceptions were filed. On the 12th of March 1860, a petition for a review was filed, which was objected to by those in favour of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Lowrie, C. J.
This ease is brought here in order to get us to review our decision in Uwehlan Road Case, 6 Casey 156, and we are well pleased to have it, for we find that we did. not express ourselves there with sufficient fulness, and that our decision is seriously questioned by the Quarter Sessions. The question now is exactly the same, for the Chester County Road Law has been extended to Dauphin county in all its words, and therefore we have no occasion to weaken the discussion by drawing distinctions that might divert the mind from the very point of…
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