Road in Sterrett Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 83 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 7 June Term 1887, Q. S. On July 2, 1887, the petition of sixty-eight citizens of Sterrett township was presented setting forth that by virtue of proceedings in said court at No. 6 June Term 1884, a road was laid out beginning on the east line of the city of Pittsburgh, at the intersection of Waverly lane and Peebles avenue in said city, thence by certain…
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 83 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 7 June Term 1887, Q. S. On July 2, 1887, the petition of sixty-eight citizens of Sterrett township was presented setting forth that by virtue of proceedings in said court at No. 6 June Term 1884, a road was laid out beginning on the east line of the city of Pittsburgh, at the intersection of Waverly lane and Peebles avenue in said city, thence by certain courses and distances to the Edgewood public road, near the Home of Aged Women (see Sterrett Tp. Road,' 114 Pa.. 627); that…
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Opinion,
Mr. Justice Hand:
This is a petition “ to vacate.....part of a public road .....laid out by authority of law and opened in part: ” See act of assembly, May 8, 1855, P. L. 422. The portion sought to be vacated is that portion of the said road “ lying between Hay street and Wood street, in the village of Wilkinsburg.” The allegations are that the portion sought to be vacated is “ useless, inconvenient, and burdensome.” The petition sets forth specific facts and reasons for the application. Viewers were appointed and made their report and state that they “ find said portion useless,…
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