Versailles Borough

Citations

• 159 Pa. 43
• 28 A. 230
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1474

Syllabus

<p>Boroughs — Incorporation—Practice—Record.</p> <p>The statutes which confer upon the courts of quarter sessions the power to incorporate boroughs by and with the concurrence of the grand jury of the county must be strictly construed, and performance of all the conditions essential to the exercise of this power must appear affirmatively on the record.</p> <p>Signing petition for incorporation — Act of June 2, 1871.</p> <p>In order to sustain a judicial incorporation of a borough it must appear upon the record that the application for it was signed by the petitioners within the three months immediately preceding its presentation to court, and that they were a majority of the freeholders residing within the limits of the town or village proposed to be incorporated.</p> <p>Where the record does not show that the petition was signed within three months preceding its presentation, the court will not infer that it was so signed from a date upon the plot accompanying the petition.</p>