Springbrook Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county: No. 28, to January Term 1870. The proceedings removed in this case related to the laying out, &c., of a road in Springbrook township, Luzerne county. By an Act of March 1st 1860, Pamph.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county: No. 28, to January Term 1870. The proceedings removed in this case related to the laying out, &c., of a road in Springbrook township, Luzerne county. By an Act of March 1st 1860, Pamph. L. 117, the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county, “ may at any term or session direct the said courts to continue at the then following term or session one or more weeks in addition to those regularly appointed by law; and for such additional week or weeks to issue venires for traverse jurors, as now required for the regular term or…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
— By the 3d section of the “ Act relating to roads, highways and bridges,” passed June 13th 1836, Pamph. L. 555, viewers of roads are required to make report to the next term of the court after that at which they have been appointed; and it has been decided that a report made and confirmed at a succeeding term or an adjourned court is irregular, and may be set aside: Stauffer’s Appeal, 1 Amer. Law Jour. 441; Boyer’s Road, 1 Wright 257; Heidelberg Township Road, 11 Id. 536. The Act of February 24th 1845, Pamph. L. 52, which makes certain…
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