Legal Opinion

Constables' Road Reports

Pennsylvania Department of Justice

Decided November 15, 1922Published

1Opinion of the Court

Brown, Dep. Att’y-Gen.,

Your letter of Oct. 19, 1922, asking to be advised upon the subject of the right of constables to report the *556condition of roads to the county courts, and other matters contained in said letter, has been received by this department.

The questions embodied in your letter are taken up in the order in which they are stated in your communication.

1. Has the constable a right to report the condition of roads to the county courts?

There is no legislative enactment conferring upon constables this right, but fortunately the decisions of our courts are such that the question is not…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. New Bethlehem BoroughSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
  2. McCullough v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1871
  3. Commonwealth v. DoyleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
  4. Commonwealth v. BredinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895

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