In the Interest of Jones

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

This case began as a private condemnation action brought pursuant to section 11 of the Act of June 13, 1836, P.L. 551, as amended, 36 P.S. § 2731 (Act), pertaining to private roads. The case was referred to a Board of View (Board) and, following a view of the site and two hearings, the Board filed a Report and Award of Viewers, finding that the necessity existed to lay out and establish a private road from the landlocked property of David A. Jones .to the public road. Mildred G. Walton appealed from the Board’s determination in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County,…