In re Road in Peach Bottom Township
York County Court of Quarter Sessions
Certiorari to tlie Court of Quarter Sessions of York County, at the instance of Isaac M. Stansbury. Exceptions to the report of re-reviewers reporting against laying out a road beginning at a point in the center of a road leading from Bryansville to Cunningham’s Cross Roads, twenty-five feet from the middle of the east wall of Gibson’s mill, on Pishing creek, and ending in said public road near Isaac Stansbury’s gates in Peach Bottom township.
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Certiorari to tlie Court of Quarter Sessions of York County, at the instance of Isaac M. Stansbury. Exceptions to the report of re-reviewers reporting against laying out a road beginning at a point in the center of a road leading from Bryansville to Cunningham’s Cross Roads, twenty-five feet from the middle of the east wall of Gibson’s mill, on Pishing creek, and ending in said public road near Isaac Stansbury’s gates in Peach Bottom township. The proceedings in this case were commenced by the appointment of viewers upon the petition of citizens of Peach Bottom township, and the exceptant was…
1Opinion of the Court
— Pee Ctjeiam :
There is no error in this record. It was a case of review'. Due notice having been given of the time and place of meeting, and the two who *545met having then and there duly adjourned tó a subsequent day named, was sufficient notice of the meeting on the latter day. As the law does not require the doing of a vain and useless thing, when the viewers decided not to confirm or establish a road to supersede the old road, they were not required to report specifically on the propriety of vacating the latter. The report against the new one was substantially a confirmation of the old road.
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2Cited by1 opinion
- Division of Lansford BoroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891