Road in Reserve Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. Sept. 6, 1856. Petition of Charles L. Groehring was presented, showing that he labors under great inconvenience for want of a private road, to lead from the public road or street, called Chestnut street, to the dwelling-house of petitioner, in said county, and praying the court to appoint viewers to lay out the same, according to law.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. Sept. 6, 1856. Petition of Charles L. Groehring was presented, showing that he labors under great inconvenience for want of a private road, to lead from the public road or street, called Chestnut street, to the dwelling-house of petitioner, in said county, and praying the court to appoint viewers to lay out the same, according to law. Sept. 6,1856. The court, on motion of John M. Kirkpatrick, appoint R. E. M£Growen, William Coleman, and Gr. E. Warner, said viewers. Sept. 6, 1856. Order to view exit. Oct. 11, 1856. On motion of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, March 29,1859, by
Church, J.
— The proceedings, as they appear of record in this case, cannot be sustained by any legal principle. The order for review was, by law, returnable at the next term of the court, after granted. Purd. Dig. 718. The. then next term commenced the fourth Monday, (the 22d day) of December, 1856. The view under this order, however,- was not had and reported upon until the 21st of March following; nor was it filed in court until subsequent to the commencement of the March Term, on the fourth Monday, (the 23d day) of March, 1857. On…
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