Ames v. Union County

This was a proceeding instituted in the commissioner's court, to lay out and establish a public highway. The court having declared the proposed road to be a public highway, ordered the same to be opened, when the plaintiff sued out a writ of review in the circuit court, which, at its September term ensuing, dismissed the writ, and affirmed the judgment of the lower court. From this judgment the appeal is taken.

The contention of the plaintiff is, that the proceedings under which the highway was located and established are void for want of sufficient description of such highway in the petition.…