Stewart's Private Road

Citations

• 38 Pa. Super. 339
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 138

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Private road — Private right of way — Acts of June 13, 1836, P. L. 551, and April 4, 1901, P. L. 65 — Field—Plantation:</p> <p>1. The Act of June 13, 1836, P. L. 551, as amended by the Act of April 4, 1901, P. L. 65, authorizes the laying out of a private road from a field or plantation separated from the owner’s mansion house or dwelling, over another person’s land to a public road.</p> <p>2. Where a deed for a field or plantation grants a right of way to continue until the grantee shall secure a private or public road direct to the land granted, from his own premises, the grantee has the right to institute proceedings for a private road under the act of June 13, 1836, notwithstanding the grant of right of way in the deed.</p>