Borough of Blooming Valley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Crawford county: No. 70, to October and November Term 1867. On the 15th of February the petition of fifty inhabitants of Woodcock township was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Crawford county; setting forth that the said town contained a collection of houses, collocated after a regular plan in regard to streets and lanes,” and that they were desirous that it should be incorporated by the title of “ The Borough of…
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Crawford county: No. 70, to October and November Term 1867. On the 15th of February the petition of fifty inhabitants of Woodcock township was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Crawford county; setting forth that the said town contained a collection of houses, collocated after a regular plan in regard to streets and lanes,” and that they were desirous that it should be incorporated by the title of “ The Borough of Blooming Yalley,” according to boundaries specified in the petition, containing 1203 acres. The petition was accompanied…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 4th 1867, by
Agnew, J.
Since the decision in the case of the Borough of West Philadelphia, 5 W. & S. 281, the legislation upon the subject of incorporating- boroughs has undergone marked change. A chief objection in that case was that none of the four villages within the boundaries proposed, excepting the village of West Philadelphia, contained three hundred inhabitants, and it did not appear that a majority of the inhabitants of any one of them had petitioned for the incorporation.
The spirit if not the letter of the law, as it then stood,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Case of West PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
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