Catawissa & Main Township Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 19, Jan. T., 1901, by Bird Bankes et al., from order of Q. S. Columbia Co., May T., 1894, No. 5, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers in the matter of the Catawissa and Main Township Road. Exceptions to report of viewers.
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Appeal, No. 19, Jan. T., 1901, by Bird Bankes et al., from order of Q. S. Columbia Co., May T., 1894, No. 5, dismissing exceptions to report of viewers in the matter of the Catawissa and Main Township Road. Exceptions to report of viewers. From the report of viewers it appeared that the road commenced in Main township near the residence of J. A. Shuman; thence by the courses and distances mentioned in the report and accompanying draft, to its northern terminus in Catawissa township, at the “ south end of the new county bridge over the Susquehanna river at a point formerly known as…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Beaver, J.,
Two questions, as stated by the appellants, are raised by the assignments of error in this case:
1. Can a public road be laid partly in the bed and alongside *23of another public road, so as to increase the width of road bed more than fifty feet and make it of not uniform width ? This question ceases to be of practical import, in view of the amended decree of the court below in disposing of the exceptions to the report of the reviewers, in and by which it is “ ordered that the order of the court made as of May 8, 1899, fixing the width of the road at forty feet, be modified…
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