Allentown Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI. CeRtiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lehigh County, to remove the proceedings in the matter of vacating a road in the borough of Allentown, beginning at Jordan Bridge and ending at the eastern extremity of Andrew street. The petition to the Court below was as follows.
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CERTIORARI. CeRtiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lehigh County, to remove the proceedings in the matter of vacating a road in the borough of Allentown, beginning at Jordan Bridge and ending at the eastern extremity of Andrew street. The petition to the Court below was as follows. “ To the honourable the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lehigh County: The petition of the subscribers, citizens of the borough of Northampton and its vicinity, represents, that a road has been heretofore laid out in the town of Northampton, beginning at a post near the bridge over Jordan…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The material exceptions to the decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions in this case, which are relied upon, are, first, that the Court of Quarter Sessions had no jurisdiction over this road, so as to be authorised to vacate it. Second, that the proceedings of the viewers were erroneous and invalid.
1, The power of the Court of Quarter Sessions to lay-out and *445vacate roads or streets in boroughs, is now regulated by the act of the 13th of June, 1836, which in the 18th section, gives to them power to vacate the whole or any part of any private…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Case of a Turnpike Road ex rel. Chad's Ford to the State LineSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1813
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