Legal Opinion

Road in Middle Creek & Union Townships

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 26, 1848PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Union. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of this court.

1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.

The objection taken against the order to open the road in question, that it was issued prematurely, is well founded. The return made by the viewers was read and confirmed nisi, on the 21st of December, 1846. At the succeeding February sessions a petition for a review was presented, and an order accordingly awarded. On exceptions filed to the report of the reviewers, it was set aside on the 25th of May, 1847. On the 29th of the same month the report of the reviewers was again read and confirmed, and then, for the first time, the width of the road was fixed by the court, with a direction that…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Case of Schuylkill Falls' RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1810
  2. Case of Spear's RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1811

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Hibberd v. County of DelawareSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1896

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