Inhabitants of Mount Olive Township v. Hunt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scudder, J.

There are defects in this return which are quite conspicuous, and must be corrected before the road can be laid according to the statute. The act requires, in defining the duties of the surveyors of the highways (section 5), that, among other things, when they determine to lay out the road they shall make return thereof, with a map or draught of the same, with the courses and distances and reference to the most remarkable places and the improvements through which it may pass. In this case we find a return, and with it a map of the road, with…