Radnor Township v. Bell
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 100, Oct. T., 1904, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., Sept. T., 1903, No. 93, dismissing certiorari in case of Radnor Township v. Samuel Bell, Jr. Certiorari to judgment of a justice of the peace. From the record it appeared that the defendant was convicted of violating the following ordinance: “ An Ordinance to fix the Speed at which Automobiles and Bicycles are to be Propelled upon the Public Highways.
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Appeal, No. 100, Oct. T., 1904, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., Sept. T., 1903, No. 93, dismissing certiorari in case of Radnor Township v. Samuel Bell, Jr. Certiorari to judgment of a justice of the peace. From the record it appeared that the defendant was convicted of violating the following ordinance: “ An Ordinance to fix the Speed at which Automobiles and Bicycles are to be Propelled upon the Public Highways. “ Section I. The Board of Commissioners of Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, do ordain, That, on and after May fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Two…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Oelady, J.,
The defendant was convicted of violating an ordinance regulating the speed of automobiles in Radnor township. The court below dismissed exceptions filed to the record of the justice of the peace before whom the defendant was convicted, and affirmed the judgment. The defendant appealed and urges that the Act of April 28, 1899, P. L. 104, does not confer any power upon this township to regulate the speed of vehicles upon its highways, or, if it did, such power was suspended by the Act of April 23, 1903, P. L. 268, and further that if the township had the power asserted by…
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