Board Sup'rs, Tishomingo Co. v. Blissitt

Section 8314, Code 1942, so far as material to the issues before us, reads as follows: “When any person shall desire to have a public road other than a road being main tained by the state highway department laid ont, altered or changed, a petition shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county, signed by ten or more freeholders or householders of the county interested in the road, setting forth the commencement and termination and general course thereof, and that the public interest or convenience requires the road to be laid out and opened or altered or changed, as shown in the…