Commonwealth v. Wilson Female College

Citations

• 42 Pa. Super. 419
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 344

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Boroughs—Vacation of street — Turnpike companies.</p> <p>A borough has authority to vacate a highway wholly within its limits although such highway was not laid out by the' corporate authorities of the borough, but was originally laid out and afterwards legally abandoned by a turnpike company. Such authority may be found in secs. 2 and 27 of the General Borough Law of April 3, 1851, P. L. 320, and may be exercised where the terminus of the borough street is coincident with the terminus of a turnpike road.</p>