Lorah v. Amity Township

Citations

• 35 Pa. Super. 529
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Diversion of water from road — Public road — Supervisors— Discretion.</p> <p>Where supervisors open a drain along the side of a public road, and waters which naturally flowed from the road on to the lands of an adjoining owner, are carried off by the drain, and this condition of things exists for many years, a subsequent board of supervisors is not precluded thereby from closing up the drain, and again diverting the water on to the neighboring land, if they do so in the exercise of a proper discretion. In such a case the neighboring owner never acquired a right to use the road as a conduit to carry the water from his premises.</p>