Vacation of Henry Street, Allegheny City
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE ALEE GHENT COUNTY. No. 202 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 September Term 1887, Q. S. On September 5, 1887, the petition of more than twelve freeholders of the vicinity of a road or highway known as Henry street, was presented, representing that before that portion of what is known as Pleasant Valley, in the Second ward, Allegheny city, was taken into the city, a public road or highway was laid out therein by the…
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE ALEE GHENT COUNTY. No. 202 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 September Term 1887, Q. S. On September 5, 1887, the petition of more than twelve freeholders of the vicinity of a road or highway known as Henry street, was presented, representing that before that portion of what is known as Pleasant Valley, in the Second ward, Allegheny city, was taken into the city, a public road or highway was laid out therein by the then proprietor, to run from Taggart street across to the Brighton road and up the hill to connect with a road or…
1Opinion of the Court
*353OPINION,
Mr. Justice Clark:
The Court of Quarter Sessions of the proper county has authority to inquire of, and to vacate the whole or any part of any public road, whenever the same shall become useless, inconvenient, and burdensome: act of June 18, 1886, P. L. 558, § 18; whether the same was originally laid out by authority of law or existed by prescription, or lapse of time: act of April 21, 1846, P. L. 416; also to vacate roads laid out, but not opened: act of June 18, 1836, § 19; also roads opened in part only: act of May 3, 1855, P. L. 422. But these powers, by the express words of the…
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