Myers v. Commonwealth ex rel. Zook
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county : Of January Term 1885, No. 456. This was a petition fiLed by Jacob K. Zook, H. P. Krick, D. Killinger, Joseph Stark, George W. Styer and Howard Piersol, setting forth that the bridge viewers had reported that a bridge across the Big Conestoga Creek was necessary to take the place of one that had been destroyed, that the commissioners of Lancaster county had refused to rebuild and reconstruct said bridge, and praying…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county : Of January Term 1885, No. 456. This was a petition fiLed by Jacob K. Zook, H. P. Krick, D. Killinger, Joseph Stark, George W. Styer and Howard Piersol, setting forth that the bridge viewers had reported that a bridge across the Big Conestoga Creek was necessary to take the place of one that had been destroyed, that the commissioners of Lancaster county had refused to rebuild and reconstruct said bridge, and praying that a mandamus issue against said commissioners commanding them to rebuild said bridge. The commissioners filed an answer…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mercur
On a case stated, this judgment of the court awarded a peremptory mandamus commanding the commissioners of the county of Lancaster to rebuild a bridge across the Conestoga creek in said county.
In 1797-8 one Binkley owned the land on both sides of the creek, and erected a bridge across the stream. In 1801 he sold and conveyed unto Myers and others, the bridge and the land on which it was built, and “one perch wide around the heads thereof” in trust for the public use and benefit of said county of Lancaster and the inhabitants thereof, and free for all persons to pass and travel over, across…
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