Wetmore Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
March 31st 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read and Sharswood, JJ. Williams, J., at Nisi Prius. Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of McKean county: No. 377, to January Term 1871. On the 30th of December 1868 a number of residents of Sergeant and Wetmore townships, in McKean county, petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions for the annexation of parts of Sergeant and Hamlin townships to the township of Wetmore, and in their petition they set out the lines by which they…
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March 31st 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Read and Sharswood, JJ. Williams, J., at Nisi Prius. Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of McKean county: No. 377, to January Term 1871. On the 30th of December 1868 a number of residents of Sergeant and Wetmore townships, in McKean county, petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions for the annexation of parts of Sergeant and Hamlin townships to the township of Wetmore, and in their petition they set out the lines by which they desired the annexation made. Commissioners were appointed, who reported that they had “ made a plot or draft of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, C. J.
The petition in this case prayed for an alteration of the lines of Wetmore township, to include portions of Hamlin and Sergeant townships. When the commissioners reported the lines as prayed for, the court not being satisfied with them, altered, at its own instance, and confirmed them as altered. We think this exceeded the powers of the court under the 13th and 14th sections of the Act of April 15th 1834. Where commissioners are appointed in such cases it is their duty to return with their report a map or plan of the proposed new…
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