Moore v. Coal Township

Citations

• 56 Pa. Super. 55
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 39

Syllabus

<p>Road, law — Townships—Illegal cutting of trees — Opening of streets.</p> <p>A township of the first class will not be liable in damages to the owner of trees cut down by one of the supervisors of the township in opening a supposed street, where it appears that the supervisor was not authorized to cut down the trees by the township council, that the street in question was a mere paper street shown on a plan of lots never recorded, and that neither the owner of the land had opened the street, nor the public authorities had ever accepted it as a highway.</p>