Legal Opinion

In re the District of Pittsburgh

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 15, 1841PublishedCited by 21 opinions

CERTIORARI to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. The facts of this case are fully stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Kennedy, J.

This was a certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county, to remove the record of a proceeding had therein under an Act of Assembly of the 16th of June 1836, (Pamph. Laws 1835-6, p. 750), authorizing a tract of land adjoining the city of Pittsburgh to be surveyed and set off as a city district for that said city. Its boundaries, by the 4th section of a Supplementary Act to the Act of 1836, passed the 1st of March 1837, (Pamph. Laws 1836-7, p. 29, 30), are directed to be laid out as follows: “ Beginning at the south-east corner of…

2Cited by21 opinions

  1. Bauman v. RossSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Best v. Zoning Board of AdjustmentSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  3. Philadelphia ParkwaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
  4. Bush v. McKeesport CitySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
  5. Forbes StreetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872

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