Creighton v. Piper

The trustees of said township [Harrison], on the relation of Andrew Farras, supervisor of road district No. 10, brought this action against Piper, before a justice of the peace, alleging in their complaint that the defendant did, on, &c., at, &c., obstruct a certain highway in said district, by erecting a -fence across the same, to the entire obstruction thereof, &c. The justice gave judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendant appealed.

In the Common Pleas, the parties made the following agreement of facts: “At an election in Harrison township, on the first Monday of April, 1857, Andrew…