Legal Opinion

Darby v. Hill

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 1, 1886PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, of Delaware county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 247. This was a certiorari to bring the record and all the proceedings of said court in the matter of the incorporation of the Borough of Sharon Hill before the Supreme Court.

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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, of Delaware county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 247. This was a certiorari to bring the record and all the proceedings of said court in the matter of the incorporation of the Borough of Sharon Hill before the Supreme Court. The record showed that on September 21st, 1885, certain citizens of the Borough of Darby and the Township of Darby, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, presented their petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions of said count}', setting out pertain boundaries as a proposed new borough to be called the “ Borough of Sharon…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark

This certiorari brings before the court the record of the Quarter Sessions of Delaware county containing the proceedings in the incorporation of the Borough of Sharon Hill. *70Tb'e original petition, •which was filed on the 21st of September,'1885, sets forth, that the petitioners reside in the Borough of Darby, and paradoxical as the statement may appear, that they also are inhabitants of the unincorporated village of Sharon Hill; that' they constitute a majority of the resident freeholders in the said Borough of Darby, within the limits of the village of Sharon Hill. The petition further…

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