Versailles Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 47, Oct. T., 1893, by Robert Wilson et al., remonstrants, from order of Q. S. Allegheny Co., June T., 1892, No. 11, incorporating borough of Versailles. Petition for incorporation of borough.
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Appeal, No. 47, Oct. T., 1893, by Robert Wilson et al., remonstrants, from order of Q. S. Allegheny Co., June T., 1892, No. 11, incorporating borough of Versailles. Petition for incorporation of borough. From the record it appeared that the petition, signed by thirty-nine persons, was presented in court June 18,1892. The jurat annexed to the petition set forth that the subscribers to the petition were all resident freeholders of the district proposed to be incorporated, and “ that they represent and constitute a majority of the resident freeholders of said district.” It did not appear either…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
The statutes which confer upon the several courts of quarter sessions within this commonwealth the power to incorporate boroughs by and with the concurrence of the grand jury of the county, must be strictly construed, and performance of all the conditions essential to the exercise of this power must appear affirmatively on the record. In Borough of West Philadelphia, 5 W. & S. 281, Chief Justice Gibson referred to the act of April 1,1834, in relation to the incorporation of boroughs, as standing on a more questionable basis than legislation authorizing…
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