Pottsville Borough v. Norwegian Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Sehuylhill county. This was an action on the case, brought by the borough of Potts-ville against the township of Norwegian, to recover half the cost of a bridge built on a public road, over a creek, which is the dividing line between the borough of Pottsville and Norwegian township.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Sehuylhill county. This was an action on the case, brought by the borough of Potts-ville against the township of Norwegian, to recover half the cost of a bridge built on a public road, over a creek, which is the dividing line between the borough of Pottsville and Norwegian township. The plaintiff, on the trial of the cause, gave evidence proving that the road is one of the great thoroughfares to and from the borough of Pottsville; and that there had been a public road and bridge in the same place, over the creek, for more than twenty-one years; and that in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Coulter, J.
— The case of Cooper and Grove v. Lampeter Township, 8 Watts 125, does not govern this case.
There one supervisor entered into a contract as to a matter which was a county and not a township concern, without consultation with the other; and in regard to a matter which did not concern the safety of travellers or security of their property. The contracting supervisor, therefore, transcended the authority vested in him by law, and his contract bound himself only. But the case in hand shows a different aspect. The supervisors of both townships…
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