Perkins v. Town of Andover

This is an application to discontinue a highway. It was brought to the December term of the superior court in 1862, and the highway which was sought to be discontinued was established at the preceding April term of the same year, and, except a section of about one-third of it, had never been worked or opened for public travel. The question arises, therefore, whether within the short time since the establishment of the highway and the bringing of this application for its discontinuance, any new matter is alleged and shown which is sufficient to relieve the case from the principle recognized…