Brown v. Sams

Sams, together with other citizens of Cherokee county, petitioned the ordinary of that county for the opening and laying out of a public road through a part of a named district therein.- The petition set forth accurately where the desired road was to begin, where it should run, through whose lands it should be laid out, where it should end, its probable length, and to what class of road it should belong; and a plat of the proposed road was attached to the petition. Upon the filing of this petition the ordinary appointed three commissioners to examine into the matter, and they were directed,…