Sugar Notch Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 210, Jan. T., 1898, by school district of the borough of Warrior Run, from decree of Superior Court, Jan. T., 1898, No. 13, affirming order of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 283. Appeal from Superior Court. See 7 Pa.
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Appeal, No. 210, Jan. T., 1898, by school district of the borough of Warrior Run, from decree of Superior Court, Jan. T., 1898, No. 13, affirming order of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 283. Appeal from Superior Court. See 7 Pa. Superior Ct. 4. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court of quarter sessions, Bennett, J., as follows : Pursuant to previous proceedings had for that purpose, under and in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled, “ An act to provide for the division of boroughs and the erection of new boroughs,” approved May 29, 1889, P. L. 393, a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
1. The title of the Act of April 3, 1851, P. L. 320, is “An *353act regulating boroughs.” Nothing more general and comprehensive on that subject could have been devised. It included the entire range of borough affairs so far as they were within legislative control. When, therefore, the Act of June 11,1879, P. L. 150, was entitled “ A supplement to an act for the regulation of boroughs,” it was so far as the title was concerned as broad as the original act. It comprehended everything relating to boroughs that was or could be the subject of legislative action. The Act…
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