Legal Opinion

Washington Township Road

Lehigh County Court of Quarter Sessions

Decided May 15, 1922Published

Exceptions to viewers’ report. Q. S. Lehigh Co.

1Opinion of the Court

Reno, J.,

The petitioners prayed for the opening of a road in Washington Township “to lead from a point in a public road leading from Slatington to the Heidelberg Church and Saegersville, and beginning at a point about 16J feet south of a hickory nut tree; thence on the north side of said public road leading from Oswald’s Mill to Emerald, a distance of about 1200 feet, and extending thence to a point in the same mentioned public road to a point about 16i feet south of a walnut stump in the said public road, being the ending of the proposed public road.” They also prayed for the vacation “of…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. In re Road in South Abington TownshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1885
  2. O'Hara Township RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
  3. Wagner v. Township of SalzburgSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
  4. Big Black Creek Improvement Co. v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
  5. Road in Lower MerionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868

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