De Tavernier v. Hunt

This is an agreed case, and raises the question whether the County Court can lawfully require the inhabitants of an incorporated town to work on the public roads outside of the corporate limits. The Circuit Judge is correct. The County Court has general jurisdiction over the public roads, and is authorized to assign a competent number of hands to each class of roads, and to appoint overseers of said roads, and to designate the boundaries within which those who reside are to work on the roads assigned to the overseers respectively, but so that no person *600shall be compelled to work on more than…