In re Washington Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 92, April T., 1919, by Arthur Hughes, Exceptant, from the order of Q. S. Greene Co., Sept. Sess., 1917, No. 1, overruling exceptions to report of viewers vacating road lying partly in Washington Township and partly in Franklin Township, Greene County, and known as the Washington Road. Exceptions to report of viewers. Before Ray, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court overruled the exceptions and confirmed the report.
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Appeal, No. 92, April T., 1919, by Arthur Hughes, Exceptant, from the order of Q. S. Greene Co., Sept. Sess., 1917, No. 1, overruling exceptions to report of viewers vacating road lying partly in Washington Township and partly in Franklin Township, Greene County, and known as the Washington Road. Exceptions to report of viewers. Before Ray, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court overruled the exceptions and confirmed the report. Error assigned was the order of the court overruling the exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
There are eighteen assignments of error. This is the third view had of the road in question, the prior two re *463ports in favor of the vacation of the road, having been set aside for technical reasons.
An examination of the draft reveals that the road begins in one township and ends in another. It does not occupy the division line of the townships except at the place where it crosses at right angles. The appellant argues that the proceedings must be considered as having been begun under the Act of June 7, 1907, P. L. 444. That act provides that whenever any public road “is…
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