Bennett v. Norton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 458, Jan. T., 1895, by-defendants, from decree of C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1894, No. 14, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to restrain the purchase of land and the erection of a courthouse.
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Appeal, No. 458, Jan. T., 1895, by-defendants, from decree of C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1894, No. 14, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to restrain the purchase of land and the erection of a courthouse. The facts appear in the following opinion by Rice, P. J. This is a bill in equity, filed by resident taxpayers and owners of real estate in the city of Wilkes-Barre, to restrain the county commissioners from purchasing certain land described in the bill, or any other land for the purpose of erecting a courthouse thereon, and from expending, or contracting to expend, the moneys of the county…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,.
The facts of this case, together with the questions involved, are so clearly and fully presented in the exhaustive opinion of the learned president of the court below, that further elaboration *243is unnecessary. While there appears to have been some difference of opinion as to the construction of the tenth section of the act of 1834, the learned judge says : “We agree in all the findings of fact and in the general conclusion that the county commissioners have not authority to purchase land without the approval of two successive grand juries.” Assuming, therefore, the correctness of…
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