Loud v. Deacon
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Alcona; Connine, J. Bill by H. Nelson Loud, Charles Wallace, and Culver Van Alstyne against Frank Deacon, Louis Clouse, John W. Ferguson, George Sampson, Charles Aldrich, and James Aldrich to restrain defendant Deacon from laying out a highway. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
The petition for the laying out of a highway described the proposed highway as “commencing at the center of section 26, and running half a mile east on surveyed line.” Before the petition was filed, the highway commissioner had caused a survey to be made. Prior to the laying out of the highway in question, there had been a highway by user running east and west north of the line of the disputed highway. Certain persons, claiming that the highway was not on the quarter line, but ran north of it and on their land, procured the discontinuance of it and petitioned for the laying out of the one in…
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