Incorporation of Moosic
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 4, Jan. T., 1900, by remonstrants, from decree of Q. S. Lackawanna Co., June Sess., 1897, No. 539, incorporating the borough of Moosic. Exceptions to petition for incorporation of a borough.
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Appeal, No. 4, Jan. T., 1900, by remonstrants, from decree of Q. S. Lackawanna Co., June Sess., 1897, No. 539, incorporating the borough of Moosic. Exceptions to petition for incorporation of a borough. Before Archbald, P. J., and Edwards, J. It appears from the record that a petition of freeholders and residents of that part of the township of Lackawanna and county of Lackawanna, which includes the village of Moosic and the village of Greenwood, was filed, praying for the incorporation of said villages as a borough to be known by the name and style of the borough of Moosic. On December 9,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
W. D. Pokteb, J.,
The first assignment of error is to the action of the court below in overruling the first exception presented by appellants. The exception alleged that the affidavit accompanying the petition, which set forth that all the signers of the petition were freeholders residing within the limits of the territory specified in the petition, was by the exceptants believed to be false. This raised a question of fact. The court overruled the exception, which was an adjudication of the fact contrary to the contention of appellants, and, being one of those things committed by the…
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