Borough of Dunmore's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of .Luzerne county. In Equity. The township of Providence in Luzerne county had become largely indebted, and part of her territory was incorporated as the “ Borough of Providence.” The indebtedness of the township was afterwards increased, and out of her remaining territory the boroughs of Hyde Park, Scranton and Dunmore, were successively erected; the whole debt remaining on the township.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of .Luzerne county. In Equity. The township of Providence in Luzerne county had become largely indebted, and part of her territory was incorporated as the “ Borough of Providence.” The indebtedness of the township was afterwards increased, and out of her remaining territory the boroughs of Hyde Park, Scranton and Dunmore, were successively erected; the whole debt remaining on the township. By an Act of Assembly passed April 10th 1862, § 9, Pamph. L. 528, the Court of Common Pleas was directed to appoint three “ commissioners, for the purpose…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the' court was delivered, October 17th 1866, by
Woodward, C. J.
Providence township in Luzerne county became many years ago largely indebted. Subsequently a village which had sprung up in her midst, was incorporated under the name of th'e borough of Providence. After this the indebtedness of the township was further increased. Next the borough of Hyde Park was erected, and then the borough of Scranton, and finally the borough of Dunmore, all out of the territory of .old Providence, leaving only the poorest part of the township encumbered with the whole indebtedness. Under the…
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