Alliance Borough
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 130, Oct. T., 1901, by Lawrence Cement Co., from order of Q. S. Northampton Co., incorporating borough of Alliance. Petition for the incorporation of the borough of Alliance. Before Scott, J. Error assigned was in entering decree of incorporation.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
W. D. Poster, J.,
We have in this case but one assignment of error, viz: that the court erred in entering the decree of incorporation. This eliminates from our consideration any question other than the jurisdiction of the court to enter the decree. The court had general jurisdiction of the subject-matter, and unless it appears upon the face of the record that there was in this proceeding some jurisdictional defect, the judgment must be affirmed. Whether the lands of the appellants properly belonged to the borough and had a community of interest with it, was a question by law…
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