Frankstown Township Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Blair county. In June, 1852, a petition was presented to the court, praying for the appointment of viewers, to lay out a road from a public school-house in Frankstown township, to the summit of Canoe .Mountain. On the 9th of December, 1852, the order issued; on the 21st of the same month the order was continued; and at April Sessions, 1853, the report was made, and the road ordered to be opened.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Blair county. In June, 1852, a petition was presented to the court, praying for the appointment of viewers, to lay out a road from a public school-house in Frankstown township, to the summit of Canoe .Mountain. On the 9th of December, 1852, the order issued; on the 21st of the same month the order was continued; and at April Sessions, 1853, the report was made, and the road ordered to be opened. On the 18th of February, 1854, the report was read a second time, and that part of the report laying out the new road confirmed, and that part vacating the old…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
The first section of the general road law of ■1836 gives the Courts of Quarter Sessions power to appoint road viewers, to view the ground and “ make report of their proceedings to the respective court at the next term.” The third section says, “the viewers as aforesaid shall make report at the next term of the said court.” In Stauffer’s Appeal, 1 A. L. R. 441, we decided in 1853 that this act means what it says, and that if, for any sufficient reason, the report cannot be made at the next term, the proper course is to apply to the court to…
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