Norwegian Street
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county: No. 160, to July Term 1875: At the instance of Schuylkill county: In the matter of the widening of Norwegian street, in Pottsville. On the 4th of May 1874, a number of citizens of Schuylkill county petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions of .that county for the appointment of viewers to “report upon the necessity of widening” Norwegian street between Sixth and Wood streets.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county: No. 160, to July Term 1875: At the instance of Schuylkill county: In the matter of the widening of Norwegian street, in Pottsville. On the 4th of May 1874, a number of citizens of Schuylkill county petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions of .that county for the appointment of viewers to “report upon the necessity of widening” Norwegian street between Sixth and Wood streets. By the Act of 2d day of April 1872, Pamph. L. 723, “all petitions to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county, for the appointment of viewers to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
It has been the policy of all the recent legislation relating to the boroughs of the Commonwealth, to subject the highways within their limits to the control of the municipal authorities as exclusively as was consistent with the duty of affording protection to the interests of individual citizens. By the 9th section of the Act of the 1st of April 1834, it was made the duty of the burgesses elected and qualified under the provisions of the act, “ to cause to be opened all streets, lanes or alleys laid out by order of the proper court.” By the general borough act of the 3d of April 1851, the…
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