Springfield Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery county: No. 110, of January Term 1873. In the matter of a public road in Springfield township.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery county: No. 110, of January Term 1873. In the matter of a public road in Springfield township. On the 26th of August 1871, a petition was presented to the court, setting forth the “want of a public road in the township of Springfield, to begin in the Germantown and Perkiomen turnpike road, at a point where the public road leading from the Flourtown and Norristown road intersects the said turnpike road, and to end in the Wissahickon turnpike road, at a point between the corner of lands of Samuel W. Paul and Peter Streeper, and the angle…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 17th 1873, by
Williams, J.
The petition in this case defines with reasonable certainty the points of beginning arid ending of the proposed road; and in laying it out the viewers complied substantially, if not literally, with the petition and order of view. The petition prays for a road “ to begin in the Germantown and Perkiomen turnpike road, at a point where the public road leading from the Flourtown and Norristown road intersects the said turnpike road, and to end in the Wissahickon road, at a point between the corner of lands of Samuel W. Paul and…
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