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'SUPERVISORS MUST KEEP UP‘ORPHAN’ ROADTELEPHONE CORPORATION DENIED NEW TRIAL IN GRAHAM C ASE; BAREFOOT ALSO DENTED NEW TRIAL.IN CONEMAUGH TWP.; Mandamus proceedings against the ts ; county commissioners to force them w I to maintain a section of road in 1 re I Com maugh township were dismissed i t- ; Tuesday in a decree and opinion by 1 ! Judge Norman T Boose, filed in the J id I piothonotary’s oflire was turned back | w ' into the hands of the cownship su- \ ' pervisors in the court’s opinion. J n ! The road in question is part of j )r ) Route 53, between Tire Hill and Kei- J ; su, which the state contended it ab- , ; andoned when it relocated a section I is j ol the highway. :?- 1 Originally it was an old ‘*uinpike”j i road, and a few years ago it was so d : — j to the state. When the state abandon- . % i ed it in its relocation operations, the j k [ highway dtpartment sought to have] » j the coui'.y maintain it. This thecounty refused to do and as a result, ; District Attorney P. G. Cober. in be-, ! half of the state, instituted the mans j damus.I I In another opinion. Judge Boose de- , j nied a new trial to the Pennsylvan a 1; Telephone Corpora cion, which had j' been defendant in a suit brought by' I A D. Graham and Company to col- •lect damages resulting from the com- | f?s, wires ] Jrpany’s removing telephone poles ° i and other property on Graham lend j “° S A jury returned a verdict of $373 in * iy 1 favor of Graham and the court di- J J reeled in its decree that judgment in 1 te | ,hat amount be entered lor him. s’ I Also denied a new trial was Alton ; Barefoot, Bedford undertaker, son of } m. Burgess B. B. Bareloot of Windber, who had been defendant in a sud“Tex_ ] brought by George C. Beisel. A ca**V, ■ owner and driven vy Barefoot struck j j Beisel near the Beechwood Inn In Og- . ^ A_ | le township, and as a result Beisel I ” lost a leg. A jury returned a verdictj.jof $3000 against Barefoot.i- The court sustained the appeal of mlt;j Jonh E. Custer of Quemahouing nr j township form the decision ol the f £ is county commiss ontrs who raised the ; re j tax assesment on his property from ; ‘ 1 id !$3000 to $5000 Judge Boose made a!11' compromise, fixing $4000 as a ‘‘fair! °and equitable valuation for Custer's i property . j P1
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Somerset Daily Herald
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jul 03, 1935
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