Keeling's Road
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 31, to October and November Term 1868. On the 17th of August 1867, Joseph Keeling presented a petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions, setting forth that he “labors under great inconvenience for want of a private road under ground to certain coal-mines owned by him in Lower St. Clair township: beginning at the present southerly end of the Ormsby Coal Railroad, on line of land of Margaret Giffin, in said…
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 31, to October and November Term 1868. On the 17th of August 1867, Joseph Keeling presented a petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions, setting forth that he “labors under great inconvenience for want of a private road under ground to certain coal-mines owned by him in Lower St. Clair township: beginning at the present southerly end of the Ormsby Coal Railroad, on line of land of Margaret Giffin, in said township; thence under the surface of said Margaret Giffin’s land to the said coal-mines of your petitioner, being…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 16th 1868, by
Sharswood, J.
It is an old and well-settled canon of construction that statutes in pari materid are to be construed together. It was accordingly held in the case of Neeld’s Road, 1 Barr 353, that the Act of April 16th 1838, § 19, Pamph. L. 642, providing for the laying out of private roads “under the surface of any land” to coal-mines, is to be regarded “as if it were a section in the General Road Law.” The act by itself, as is said by .the court in that case, is very crude and imperfect, and it could not be carried into effect…
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