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Bachman's Road

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 15, 1833

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1833-05-15

Case of the road, in Bart and Strasburg townships, Lancaster county, leading from Bachman’s to Trout’s. In this case a petition was presented to the court at November sessions 1831, and a view granted; and return made by viewers to January session 1832: on the 16th of January, same year, “ read and approved nisi.’’ At the April sessions following, a petition was presented praying for a review, which was granted; and a report made to August session'following, on the first day…

Relies on In the case of a Road leading from the corner of Bukwalter's orchard

Decided 1833-05-15

Per Curiam.

¶1A review is a matter of right; but although grantable at the instance of a party, it, as well as the view, is but to inform the conscience of the court, who may adopt the report of the viewers, or of the reviewers at discretion; as was held in the case of Buckwalter’s Road, 3 Serg. & Rawle 236. As, then, the party at whose instance the review was granted, had no right to insist on having the report of the reviewers confirmed as a matter of course in the absence of a special objection to it, it was not error to adopt the one report without exceptions filed to the other.

¶2Proceedings affirmed.

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