Annexation to Borough of Camp Hill
Cumberland County Court of Quarter Sessions
No. 201 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not shown. On February 10, 1890, William Sadler and others, averring that they were a majority of the resident freeholders, owning lots, out-lots, and other tracts of land, in a certain section of East Pennsboro township, lying adjacent to and adjoining the south and west boundary lines of the borough of Camp Hill, presented their petition for an extension of the limits of said borough so as to include said…
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No. 201 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not shown. On February 10, 1890, William Sadler and others, averring that they were a majority of the resident freeholders, owning lots, out-lots, and other tracts of land, in a certain section of East Pennsboro township, lying adjacent to and adjoining the south and west boundary lines of the borough of Camp Hill, presented their petition for an extension of the limits of said borough so as to include said territory. Attached to the petition was a draft, a section of which, omitting the courses and distances of the lines, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark :
Although by the act of May 9, 1889, this case comes to us upon an appeal, it is to be disposed of as upon a certiorari. No appeal upon the merits was allowed in such case, prior to the passage of the act of 1889, and that act did not extend the right of review, or modify its exercise. It simply provides that “ all appellate proceedings in the Supreme Court, heretofore by writ of error, appeal, or certiorari, shall hereafter be taken in a proceeding to be called an appeal.” As we said in Rand v. King, 134 Pa. 641, an appeal in name may therefore be a writ of error or…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Rand v. KingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
- Borough of Blooming ValleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1867
- Borough of SewickleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1859
- In re Incorporation of OsborneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1882
3Cited by36 opinions
- Bell AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1959
- Irwin Borough Annexation Case (No. 1)Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
- City of Irving v. CallawayCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1962
- Lefler v. City of DallasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1943
- Commonwealth v. TragleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
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