Summit Hill Borough
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 209, Oct. T., 1911, by Andrew Breslin, from order of Q. S. Carbon Co., Oct. Term, 1910, No. 103, redividing borough into wards In re Division of Summit Hill Borough. Petition for redivision of borough into wards. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 209, Oct. T., 1911, by Andrew Breslin, from order of Q. S. Carbon Co., Oct. Term, 1910, No. 103, redividing borough into wards In re Division of Summit Hill Borough. Petition for redivision of borough into wards. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court made the following order: And now, September 12,1911, the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the propriety of granting the prayer of freehold petitioners of the borough of Summit Hill, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, as to the redivision of said borough into wards having been duly filed in this…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Morrison, J.,
The petition upon which this proceeding is based, as furnished to us by appellant, is as follows: “December 20, 1910, Petition of thirty-three freeholders in the Borough of Summit Hill, praying the court to re-divide said Borough of Summit Hill into wards, by consolidating two or more wards or parts of two or more wards into one ward by erecting new wards out of parts of two or more adjoining wards, by dividing wards already erected into two or more wards, and by altering the lines of two or more adjoining wards, as may be found to best suit the convenience of the…
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- Lloyd v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Commonwealth ex rel. Braughler v. WeirSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Borough of Millvale v. Evergreen Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
- Commonwealth ex rel. v. TaylorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Bor. of Washington v. McGeorge, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Washington County1892
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- Carns v. MatthewsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1934