Road in Moore Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county. After other views had been had, the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county, on petition presented at January Sessions, 1848, appointed viewers to view the route of a proposed road, to lead from the public road from Scholl’s Mill to the Lehigh Water Gap, thence by the nearest and best route to the public road leading from Bethlehem to Klecknersville, the whole distance being within Moore township.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county. After other views had been had, the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county, on petition presented at January Sessions, 1848, appointed viewers to view the route of a proposed road, to lead from the public road from Scholl’s Mill to the Lehigh Water Gap, thence by the nearest and best route to the public road leading from Bethlehem to Klecknersville, the whole distance being within Moore township. No order was issued, it was said, in consequence of its having been discovered that exceptions might be taken to some of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
At January Sessions, 1848, a petition was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions praying for viewers to lay out a road in Moore township from Scholl’s Mill to the Lehigh Water Gap; and viewers were appointed accordingly. At April Sessions, the order being unexecuted, the court appointed another set of viewers, without assigning any reason on the record for doing so. At August Sessions the viewers appointed in April made report in favor of the road as prayed for in the petition.
It does not appear that any of these proceedings were…
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