Bean's Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county. On the 7th August 1858, the petition of Jacob Bean and other inhabitants of the township of Upper Saueon was presented to the court below, for a public road, “beginning at a public road leading from Locust Valley to Allentown, at a certain point in said road, between the lines of lands of John Newcomer and A. Witman, and Richard Clewell’s dwelling-house, thence by the nearest and best route, until it intersects a public…
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county. On the 7th August 1858, the petition of Jacob Bean and other inhabitants of the township of Upper Saueon was presented to the court below, for a public road, “beginning at a public road leading from Locust Valley to Allentown, at a certain point in said road, between the lines of lands of John Newcomer and A. Witman, and Richard Clewell’s dwelling-house, thence by the nearest and best route, until it intersects a public road leading from the former-mentioned road to Schaffer’s tavern, between the dwelling-houses of Ephraim Geissinger and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J.
The only question raised in this court, and not abandoned during the argument, is, whether the termini of the road reported by the viewers are defined with sufficient precision. In the petition and order to the viewers-, the proposed road is described as “ beginning at a public road leading from Locust Valley to Allentown, at a certain point in said road, between the lines of lands of John Newcomer and A. Witman, and Richard *281Clewell’s dwelling-house, thence by the nearest and best route until it intersects a public road leading from the…
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