Road in Chartiers Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. On the 8th May 1858, the petition of divers inhabitants of Chartiers township was presented, praying for the appointment of viewers to lay ,out a road from the Middletown road, at or near McClelland’s house, to the Steubenville turnpike road, at or near McLarren’s flour-mill, in the sai'd township.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. On the 8th May 1858, the petition of divers inhabitants of Chartiers township was presented, praying for the appointment of viewers to lay ,out a road from the Middletown road, at or near McClelland’s house, to the Steubenville turnpike road, at or near McLarren’s flour-mill, in the sai'd township. Viewers were appointed, who reported in favour of the road as prayed for by the petitioners,' and assessed the damages of the parties thereby injured; and among others, awarded to the Heirs of Frederick Lorenz, $50. The report was only signed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
This certiorari brings up only one record, being No. 14, of March Sessions 1858. A copy of a previous one is put on our paper-books; but we have nothing to do with it. It does not properly appeal’, therefore, that any of these viewers were on a former view of the same matter; and if it did, we might not regard them as incompetent, if this view be substantially but a recommitment of the case, because of some formal error in the first proceeding. We generally prefer leaving questions of partiality of viewers to the judgment of the court…
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