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3 Yeates 263

Berlin Road

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 15, 1801

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1801-10-15

On a certiorari to remove all proceedings respecting a road, from the town of Berlin to Leidig’s mill. It appeared, that on a petition for the road to September sessions 1800, viewers had been appointed, who returned to the December sessions following a certain road by courses and distances for and as a public road.

Relies on Davey v. Turner

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Decided 1801-10-15

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1920

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¶1The court now reversed the proceedings, because the petition for the review by several of the inhabitants of Southampton and Brother’s Valley townships had been duly filed, previous to the road’s being confirmed. It has been long settled, that the review of a road is a matter of right. See 1 Dall. 11.

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