Bridgeport & New Cumberland Turnpike Road
Bridgeport & New Cumberland Turnpike Road
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
If the order of February 21, 1893, can be considered as embracing a direction to the supervisors to close the New Cumberland & Bridgeport Turnpike Road against the public before the construction and actual opening for public use of the road laid out to supply its place, it is to that extent a nullity. Neither the Philadelphia, Harrisburg & Pittsburg Railroad Compan}" nor its lessee acquired by this order any right to obstruct the old turnpike road or standing to contest the order of June 12, 1894, recognizing and preserving the rights of the public in it until the completion of the road designed as a substitute for it
Order affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Bridgeport & New Cumberland Turnpike Road. Philadelphia, Harrisburg & Pittsburg Railroad Company's Appeal
- Cited By
- 1 case
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- Boad law—Vacation of road—Decree of court—Act of June 18, 1886. Whenever the whole or any part of a road has been vacated by the court of quarter sessions and a new road laid out in lieu thereof, the road, so vacated shall not be shut up until the new road shall have been actually opened. Where an order of the court vacating a road is made upon the supposition that a new road has been opened as a substitute for the old road, and it subsequently appears that the new road has not been actually opened to the public, the order vacating the old road is void, and will be set aside by the court.