Case Name: In the Case of a Road in Radnor and Newtown
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1813-07-12
Citations: 5 Binn. 612
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Case of a Road in Radnor and Newtown.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Binney)
Volume: 5
Pages: 612–613

Head Matter:
In the Case of a Road in Radnor and Newtown.
Philadelphia, Monday, July 12.
If a petitioner as^reviewrit is fatal to the . proceedings.
r 1 'HIS was a certiorari to Delaware county, to bring up ^ ^ Proceed‘ngs relative to a road laid out in the townships of Newtown and Radnor.
A variety of exceptions were taken and argued, by Frazer in support of the certiorari, and B. Tilghman for the road; a material one was, that Maskell Ewing, who was one of the petitioners for the road, was appointed and acted as a reviewer.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Many objections have been made to the proceedings in this case, but we shall confine our opinion to one, namely, that Mr. Ewing, one of the petitioners, was appointed a reviewer, and signed the report which was confirmed by the Court. We make no doubt but this appointment was merely accidental. The Court did not happen to have the names of the petitioners before them, when they appointed the reviewers. But it was an irregularity which cannot be overlooked. We are of opinion that this objection is fatal., and therefore the proceedings must be quashed.
Proceedings quashed.