Church Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was a certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery county, to bring up the proceedings in the case of a road in Whitemarsh and Springfield townships in that county, called the Churoh road.
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THIS was a certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery county, to bring up the proceedings in the case of a road in Whitemarsh and Springfield townships in that county, called the Churoh road. A petition was presented in 1841 to that court signed by the supervisors of Springfield township, setting forth that in September 1784, by order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county, a public road was laid out from the church in White-marsh township (then in Philadelphia county) to the church in Oxford, beginning, &c., as appeared by the record of the proceedings of that…
1Per curiam
As the Court of Quarter Sessions has no powers but what it gets from the statute,' the object ought to be specifically stated in the petition which, is the basis of the subsequent proceedings, and it should appear to be dearly within the purview. Its powers in regard to public roads, are to lay out, to vacate, and to alter or change an established route by laying out and vacating in whole or in part. As the question of width is determinable by the court, there seems to be no authority for a view merely to widen. That object appears to be unattainable by any other process than vacating and…
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