2 Grant 467 | Pa. | 1854
The opinion of the court was delivered by
— We will consider the exceptions to this proceeding in the order in which they stand.
This is not true in point of fact. The first view reported in favor of the road. The review against it, the re-review reported that a road was necessary, but not 'on the ground in which the original view had located it, but failed to designate the location approved of by them. The fourth, or re-re-review, was a mere ¡continuation of the third view, which had in effect accomplished nothing. Whether the report should have been referred back to the third view to complete, or to different viewers, was matter of discretion in the Quarter Sessions.
This exception is substantially disposed of in our answer to the first. Whenever viewers fail to agree in a report, or make
The appointment of viewers before the order has actually issued, is subject to the revision of the court. Here one set of viewers had been named, and their names inserted in the order, but upon a change being made in the viewers, the first names were erased, and those substituted entered in the order. It would have been better to have made an entire new order, as interlineations and erasures ought to be avoided in public records, but this is more matter of taste than of legal authority. We presume that the court below had good and sufficient reasons for the change; at all events we cannot review them, good or bad. '
There is nothing in this but what has already been considered.
This assignment of error was made upon a misconception of the state of the record. By a supplementary record, filed by the defendants in error, it appears that the breadth of the road was fixed before the certiorari was taken; and although no date is given to the order fixing its width, it appears to have been done upon the final confirmation of the road. The only entry we have of the final confirmation, is in immediate connection with the order fixing its width; and in the absence of anything disposing of it, wé will presume that both orders were made at the same time. The state of the record is as follows: On the 24th of April, 1854, the report was read and confirmed nisi. On the next day exceptions were filed, and a rule granted to show cause why the report should not be set aside, ££ returnable second Monday of June next.” The next entry is August 9th. Rule discharged and application rejected. And then follows the record, reciting that ££ the viewers made report in writing to last court,” which was read and confirmed, and the “same is by this court ordered to be recorded, and opened thirty-three feet wide.” There is no date to this order, but it is clear that
And now, May 16th, A. D. 1855, it is ordered that all proceeding in this case, subsequent to the Sntry of the 24th April, a. d. 1854, viz., “read and confirmed nisi,” be and are hereby