Chambersburg & Bedford Turnpike Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 199, Oct. T., 1901, by the president and managers of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road Company, from order of Q. S. Bedford Co., overruling exceptions in proceedings to condemn the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road in Bedford County. Proceedings to condemn a portion of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road in Bedford county. The petition -was referred to Frank Fletcher, Esq., as master, and a jury.
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Appeal, No. 199, Oct. T., 1901, by the president and managers of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road Company, from order of Q. S. Bedford Co., overruling exceptions in proceedings to condemn the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road in Bedford County. Proceedings to condemn a portion of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road in Bedford county. The petition -was referred to Frank Fletcher, Esq., as master, and a jury. Voluminous testimony was taken, after the conclusion of which the petitioners presented to the master these points: 6. That the measure of damages in this case is not…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The history of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road Company began in an act of assembly of February 24, 1806,4 Smith’s Laws, p. 279, by which the governor of the commonwealth was authorized to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the bank of the river Susquehanna opposite to the borough of Harrisburg to Pittsburg, which act was supplemented by One of March 9, 1814, 6 Smith’s Laws, p. 120, by which the incorporation of five companies was provided for, and the section, of which the turnpike in controversy is a part, was styled the Chambersburg and…
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