Glenfield Borough Road
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 67, April T., 1897, by Phillip Keller et Ux., from decree of Q. S. Allegheny Co., June Sess., 1893, No. 5, closing and vacating road. Exceptions to report of viewers sur petition for the vacation of a road. It appeared from the record that a petition was presented, •alleging that the petitioners, having examined the matter, say that the said private road in question is useless, inconvenient, burdensome and should be vacated.
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Appeal, No. 67, April T., 1897, by Phillip Keller et Ux., from decree of Q. S. Allegheny Co., June Sess., 1893, No. 5, closing and vacating road. Exceptions to report of viewers sur petition for the vacation of a road. It appeared from the record that a petition was presented, •alleging that the petitioners, having examined the matter, say that the said private road in question is useless, inconvenient, burdensome and should be vacated. The prayer was for the appointment of viewers who were appointed. The report of the viewers was approved and exceptions dismissed and the road directed to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
The per curiam opinion in Benzenhoefer’s Appeal, 154 Pa. 547, would practically meet the requirements of this case. We can consider only the regularity of the proceedings. With the facts of the ease we have nothing to do, much less can we consider the testimony taken under proceedings to lay out the road finally disposed of in Benzenhoefer’s Appeal, supra. The eighteenth section of the Act of June 13, 1836, P. L. 558, undoubtedly gave the court below jurisdiction of the application to vacate the private road previously laid out and opened under and in pursuance of its…
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- Keller's Private RoadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
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