Sadsbury Township Roads—Toland's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, July T., ,1891, by Eli Toland, from an order of Q. S. Chester Co., dismissing exceptions to the report of a road jury. Petition for appointment of viewers to lay out three roads in Sadsbury township.
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Appeal, No. 13, July T., ,1891, by Eli Toland, from an order of Q. S. Chester Co., dismissing exceptions to the report of a road jury. Petition for appointment of viewers to lay out three roads in Sadsbury township. The petition described the roads as follows: ■ (1) A public road to begin in the Octoraro road at or near the corner of the lot of the Upper Octoraro Church, and to end at a point in the line between the township of Sadsbury and the borough of Parkesburg, at or near the terminus of Octoraro avenue. (2) To begin in the road leading to Sadsburyville, at or near a tree in the middle…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Sterrett,
There appears to be nothing in the provisions of our general road law to indicate that the legislature ever intended that the jurisdiction conferred on the court of quarter sessions, in relation to laying out roads, should be exercised in a kind of wholesale way, by joining together in one proceeding, before same viewers, two or more separate roads. On the contrary, it clearly appears to have been intended that the jurisdiction of the court should from time to time be evoked by a petition for a single road. The act of June 13, 1836, P. L. 555, provides that the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- In re the Vacation & Supply of a Public RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1883
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