In re Road in South Abington Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lackawanna county: Of July Term, 1884, No. 54. This was a petition by sundry inhabitants of the township of Abington for a public road, to lead from a point at or near Isaac Ackerley’s, on a highway leading from Newton Center to O’Donnel’s hotel, terminating at a point on a public road leading from Clark’s Green to Newton Center, at a point near the Hendershot spring.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lackawanna county: Of July Term, 1884, No. 54. This was a petition by sundry inhabitants of the township of Abington for a public road, to lead from a point at or near Isaac Ackerley’s, on a highway leading from Newton Center to O’Donnel’s hotel, terminating at a point on a public road leading from Clark’s Green to Newton Center, at a point near the Hendershot spring. Viewers were accordingly appointed, and afterwards presented the following report:— To the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the annexed order: We, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The petition in this case was presented to the court of Quarter Sessions of Lackawanna county, by the inhabitants of the township of South Abington, for the appointment of viewers to view and lay out a public road. The county of Lackawanna was, in the year 1878, formed from the county of Luzerne, and the proceedings, therefore, are under the provisions of the special Act of 24th February, 1845, P. L. 52; Purd. Dig., 1290.
The petition is in the form recognized in general practice, and represents, that the petitioner’s are residents of the township named, and that they labor under great…
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