Case of Green Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI to the Quarter Sessions of Franklin county. This case was decided in the court below in the absence of the President Judge. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. The case was argued here by
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This was a proceeding commenced under the provisions of the 13th and 14th sections of the Act of the 15th of April 1834, for the purpose of having a division made of Green township, in the county of Franklin. By the 13th section it is enacted that “ the several Courts of Quarter Sessions shall have authority within their respective counties to erect new townships, to divide any township already erected, and to alter the lines of any two or more adjoining townships so as to suit the convenience of the inhabitants thereof, and to cause the…
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