Plainfield & Washington Township Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 118, Oct. T., 1913, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Northampton Co., Sept. T., 1912, No. 2, on report of viewers on petition to vacate the Plainfield and Washington Township Road. Petition to vacate a road.
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Appeal, No. 118, Oct. T., 1913, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Northampton Co., Sept. T., 1912, No. 2, on report of viewers on petition to vacate the Plainfield and Washington Township Road. Petition to vacate a road. The following exception, inter alia, was filed to the viewers’ report. 5. The viewers having found in the fourth, fifth and sixth findings that the said road, if wholly opened as laid out, would not be useless or inconvenient and would not be burdensome to the township of Plainfield, the viewers should not have reported in favor of vacating that part of the said road lying…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
This proceeding had its origin in a petition for the vacation of a road laid out and opened in part in the townships of Washington and Plainfield “beginning in a public road leading from Bangor to Wind Gap at an intersection with a public road leading to Pen Argyl, said intersection being at the Delabole Post Office and at the Delabole Hotel, in the Township of Plainfield” and extending southwardly by courses and distances in the petition set forth “to the intersection of a public road leading from Ackermanville to Pen Argyl, the point of ending of said road” in the…
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- Beigh's RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854
- Big Run RoadSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
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