Case of a Turnpike Road ex rel. Chad's Ford to the State Line
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
r | NIIS was a Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Delaiware county, to remove all proceedings on the tion of Samuel Davis and Owen Rhoades, to have adjudged the damages occasioned to them by laying out through their land respectively, a turnpike road from Philadelphia by Ford, on Brandywine, to the line of the state in the towards Baltimore.
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r | NIIS was a Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Delaiware county, to remove all proceedings on the tion of Samuel Davis and Owen Rhoades, to have adjudged the damages occasioned to them by laying out through their land respectively, a turnpike road from Philadelphia by Ford, on Brandywine, to the line of the state in the towards Baltimore. By the record it appeared, that the petition of Davis and Rhoades was presented to the Quarter Sessions of Ddaxuare in January 1811, under the act of the 24th of March 1808, . J , , , . , . ,. incorporating this turnpike company, and which by reference…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman. C. J.
The principal error assigned in this case, is, that six persons were appointed by the Court to view the road, and adjudge the damages, and only five of them joined in the report. The act of Assembly directs, that the person sustaining damage by the laying out of the the road, may make application to the Court of the county in' which such damage is sustained, and thereupon “ the “ Court shall appoint six disinterested persons, to view and “ adjudge the amount of the damages so done, which, if “ approved by the Court, shall be paid by the company.”
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