In re division of Plum Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 255, of October and November Term 1876. The proceedings in the court below were to obtain the division of Plum township in the county of Allegheny.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 255, of October and November Term 1876. The proceedings in the court below were to obtain the division of Plum township in the county of Allegheny. The petition of voters, citizens and residents of said township, which bore date the 8th of May 1876, represented that the said township was of large extent territorially ; that there was considerable v diversity of interest amongst its inhabitants ; that the voting-place was in a central position, and that the voters in the north end of the township had to travel from five to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
The 14th section of the Act of April 15th 1834, Pamph. L. 539, provides that upon application by petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions for the purpose of creating a new township or altering the lines of any' township, or of ascertaining the lines or boundaries of any township, the court shall appoint three impartial men, if necessary, to inquire into the propriety of granting the prayer of the petitioner. It has been settled in a series of cases decided by this court upon the construction of this act that the order of the court appointing the commissioners, which is their authority for…
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