Com. ex rel. Ballou v. Halifax Township Supervisors

Wickersham, J.,

Upon petition of the plaintiff, alleging the necessary jurisdictional facts and praying that a writ of mandamus issue to the Supervisors of Halifax Township, commanding them to repair the road mentioned in the petition and put the same in passable condition, this court issued an alternative writ of mandamus as therein prayed.

*664The defendants filed their return, denying that the road was in impassable condition and alleging that said road is only a lane leading from the Borough of Halifax to the farms of the plaintiff, Clara Powley and C. P. Ballou, having its one terminus in…