Legal Opinion

In re Road in Hampton Township

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 17, 1919No. Appeal, No. 28PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal, No. 28, April T., 1919, by Charles Anderson et al., from order of Q. S. Allegheny Co., December Sess., 1916, No. 1, dismissing a petition for review in re Petition for a Public Road in the Township of Hampton. Exception to report of Board of Viewers. Before Davis, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court dismissed the exceptions. Error assigned was the order of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The first assignment of error is directed to the failure of the petitioners to comply with the provisions of the Act of March 29,1905, P. L. 69, requiring written notice of the application for the appointment of viewers to be given supervisors of townships in connection with proceedings to open and lay out roads therein.

The objection to the proceedings on this ground was not filed in the court below except under the very general exception to the viewers’ report that the “proceeding is not done according to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided,” and the…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Armstrong & Latta v. City of PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
  2. Borough v. RoehmeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
  3. G. B. Hurt, Inc. v. Fuller Canneries Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
  4. Weiskircher v. ConnellySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  5. Jeannette v. RoehmeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1898

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Jennings v. YanovitzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1934

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