Indiana Township Lines Alteration Case

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

These cases were certified to this court by the Superior Court under section 10 of the Act of June 24, 1895, P. L. 212. The controlling question involved in each of them is whether a township may annex a substantial portion of the territory of another township in proceedings instituted under a statute providing merely for the alteration of the lines of two adjoining townships.

In the Allegheny County case a petition for the alteration of the lines of Indiana Township, which is a tOAvnship of the second class, and Shaler Township, which is a tOAvnship of…