Potts's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Montgomery county. This was a certiorari issued at the suit of George M. Potts and Margaret Knox, to the Quarter Sessions of the county of Montgomery, to remove the proceedings in the matter of a public road, leading from a point in the township-line road, dividing the townships of Norriton and Whitpain, opposite George Wack’s mill, to a point in the State road leading from Doylestown to Norristown, where the said township line crosses the same…
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Error to the Common Pleas of Montgomery county. This was a certiorari issued at the suit of George M. Potts and Margaret Knox, to the Quarter Sessions of the county of Montgomery, to remove the proceedings in the matter of a public road, leading from a point in the township-line road, dividing the townships of Norriton and Whitpain, opposite George Wack’s mill, to a point in the State road leading from Doylestown to Norristown, where the said township line crosses the same near Jonathan Ellis’s. Proceedings in relation to this proposed road had been for several years pending in the Quarter…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bell, J.
The exceptions filed to the action of the court below are entirely destitute of merits, and we deem it necessary thus to notice them particularly, only to express our approbation of the course pursued in sending their report back to the viewers for correction in a point not touching the propriety of laying out the road in question. It was done in pursuance of a recommendation I ventured to suggest in the case of the Towamencin road: 10 Barr 195. That recommendation was founded in experience of the vexatious trouble, expense, and inconvenience…
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