Killbuck Private Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1874, No. 87. The proceedings in this case were for a private road, upon the petition and for the use of James M. Graham, Benjamin Waters and F. H. Anderson, in Killbuck township. The petition was presented April 26th 1873, representing that the petitioners labored under “inconvenience for want of a private road to lead from the end of a private road (granted by IT.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1874, No. 87. The proceedings in this case were for a private road, upon the petition and for the use of James M. Graham, Benjamin Waters and F. H. Anderson, in Killbuck township. The petition was presented April 26th 1873, representing that the petitioners labored under “inconvenience for want of a private road to lead from the end of a private road (granted by IT. P. Mueller, deceased, to the grantees of certain property in said ITillbuck township, the above-named petitioners being some of said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
It appears from the several reports of the viewers and reviewers, and the drafts submitted to us in this case, that this private road, *43as petitioned for by James N. Graham et al., and as confirmed by the court, has for one of its termini a private road leading to a public highway, called the Beaver road, and for its other the Ohio river.
That it was error in the court to make such confirmation, under the circumstances, is patent from the Act of Assembly under which the proceedings were had.
That act (of 1886) requires that such private road shall have for its principal términus the dwelling or…
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