Derry Township Road

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 538
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 115

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Termini—Turnpike road — Necessity for road.</p> <p>A turnpike road is a public highway constructed by virtue of public authority and for public purposes.</p> <p>A point in a turnpike road maintained by a duly incorporated company, may lawfully be made the terminus of a public road.</p> <p>The mere fact that the net revenues of a turnpike company may be reduced by the opening of a new public road, because of the expense involved by the necessity of maintaining a new toll gate, does not present a conclusive bar to the right of the public to open such new highways, as the changes in public travel may render necessary.</p> <p>In order to justify a reversal of an order of the court below opening a new road, an abuse of discretion must be clearly shown.</p>