Incorporation of Swoyerville Borough
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 6, Jan. T., 1900, by Lehigh Valley Coal Co. et al., from decree of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Jan. Sess. 1898, No. 477, incorporating the borough of Swoyerville. Petition for incorporation of borough. Before the court in banc.
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Appeal, No. 6, Jan. T., 1900, by Lehigh Valley Coal Co. et al., from decree of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Jan. Sess. 1898, No. 477, incorporating the borough of Swoyerville. Petition for incorporation of borough. Before the court in banc. It appears from the record that a petition was filed by the inhabitants of Maltby and part of the inhabitants of the township of Kingston in the immediate vicinity thereof, praying that the village of Maltby and its surroundings may be incorporated a borough by the style and title of the Borough of Swoyerville. Exceptions were filed by the Lehigh Yalley Coal Company…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinión by
W. D. Poeten, J.,
A petition for the incorporation of Swoyerville, in due form .and properly signed, having been presented to the court of quarter sessions, the appellants filed exceptions to said incorpora*122tion based upon the character and uses of the lands sought to be included, within the borough limits. Testimony was taken by the exceptants, as well as by the petitioners, and the court below, after considering the evidence and the arguments on behalf of all parties to the proceeding, sustained the exceptions' as to certain mountain lands, which it excluded from the borough, and…
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