North Canal Street Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI to the quarter sessions of Jlllegheny county. On March 23, 1839, a petition was presented, by the appointment of viewers, to lay out a road, within part of Allegheny town, from "the bank of the Pennsylvania canal to Cedar street, in the town, and viewers were appointed, who reported in favour of the road.
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CERTIORARI to the quarter sessions of Jlllegheny county. On March 23, 1839, a petition was presented, by the appointment of viewers, to lay out a road, within part of Allegheny town, from "the bank of the Pennsylvania canal to Cedar street, in the town, and viewers were appointed, who reported in favour of the road. To this report exceptions were filed, which were afterwards withdrawn; and, by consent of the parties, a review was granted January 4, 1840, and the reviewers also reported in favour of the road, which was confirmed by the court April IS, 1840, and ordered to be opened, 33 feet…
1Per curiam
Acts entirely done under a statute while it was in force, stand good after its repeal. But before these proceedings *352were completed, the statutory jurisdiction of the quarter sessions had been transferred to the councils of 'the city, by the twelfth section of the act of incorporation; and by the transfer, every thing done’was made void. The sessions, therefore, ought to have arrested the proceeding.
Order of the sessions reversed, and proceedings' quashed.
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