In re Shaefferstown Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lebanon. - June 21. The reports of viewers, reviewers, and re-reviewers having been filed, the court approved of the former and latter reports, but there did not appear to have been any order made as to the breadth of the proposed.road.
1Opinion of the CourtCourter, J.
One of the errors. assigned has been frequently ruled by this court to be an incufable defect in proceedings of this kind. The breadth of the road was not fixed by the court at the time the road was approved, nor indeed at any other time; 1 Barr, 356; 3 Watts & Serg. 559; 3 Whart. 105; 4 Watts & Serg. 39. There' is no trace or scintilla .of evidence on the record that the court at any time fixed the breadth of the road. But it was alleged on the argument, that among the rules of court'of Lebanon county is one fixing the width of roads which may be laid out in that county. But I know of no…
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