Portage Township Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 66, April T., 1912, by exceptants, from order of Q. S. Cambria Co., March T., 1910, No. 7, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers In re petition for Public Road in Portage Township. Exceptions to report of viewers. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned amongst others was in dismissing an exception to the effect that the petition did not properly set out the termini of the road.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The petition in this case was for a public road “to lead from the old Sonman station in said township of Portage to Washington street in said borough of Portage.” The first assignment of error is to the overruling of the exception that the petition did not fix definitely the point of beginning and the point of ending mentioned therein, by giving the exact distance from an intersecting public road, street or railroad, already opened, as required by sec. 1 of the Act of April 23, 1909, P. L. 142. In the case of Road in Kennedy Township, ante, p. 619, in which we herewith…
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