In re the Road from George Bliss's to Sandy Lick Creek
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson county. A large number of persons petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions, setting out that they laboured under “ inconvenience for want of a road or highway to lead from the turnpike * * * to Sandy Lick Creek,” and praying for the appointment of viewers to view and lay out such road. The court accordingly appointed viewers for that purpose.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson county. A large number of persons petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions, setting out that they laboured under “ inconvenience for want of a road or highway to lead from the turnpike * * * to Sandy Lick Creek,” and praying for the appointment of viewers to view and lay out such road. The court accordingly appointed viewers for that purpose. The yiewers reported that they had “ viewed, laid out and returned for private use,” a road from a point “ on the Susquehanna and Waterford.Turnpike * * * to a post on the banks of Sandy Lick…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
Under the 11th and 12th sections of the Road Law of 1886, Purd. 872, the Court of Quarter Sessions have power to lay out a private road from the dwellings or plantations of the petitioners to a highway or place of necessary public resort, or to some other private way that leads to a highway, but they have no power under these sections or any other to lay out private roads except between such termini. The object of the legislation was to enable petitioners to get access to established highways and to places of necessary resort, that they…
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