In re Road in McCandless Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county : Of October and November Term 1885, No. 54. This was, in the court below, a petition to vacate a road in McCandless township, which had been laid out and opened in part.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county : Of October and November Term 1885, No. 54. This was, in the court below, a petition to vacate a road in McCandless township, which had been laid out and opened in part. The record shows, inter alia, the following: — The petition was filed on June 4th, 1884, setting forth that a road, beginning in a public road at Phillip Haas’ barn, in the township of McCandless, thence running by various courses and distances to a public road at Adam iíeil’s gate, where it ends-, laid out by order of court, was confirmed at March sessions of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The Act of May 3d, 1855, supplementary to the general road law, authorizes- courts of Quarter Sessions “ to inquire of, and to change or vacate the whole or any part of any public *611or private road which may have been laid out by authority of law, and opened in part ”; and requires them to “ proceed therein by views and reviews in the manner provided for the vacating of other roads by existing laws ”: Purd. 1501, pl. 35. Under that Act, a petition was presented at June sessions, 1884, setting forth that a specified part of a certain public road, theretofore laid out by proceedings commenced at…
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