Inhabitants of Dresden v. County Commissioners
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Petition for certiorari to quash the proceedings of the respondents in laying out a town way in Dresden, which the selectmen of that town had refused to locate.
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On exceptions. Petition for certiorari to quash the proceedings of the respondents in laying out a town way in Dresden, which the selectmen of that town had refused to locate. The petition to the county commissioners alleged this refusal to be unreasonable, but the commissioners did not say, in their report, that they determined it to be so ; the attorney for those who asked to have the way established, however, at the hearing at nisi prius, offered the commissioners as witnesses to prove that they did so determine in fact, and would amend their record accordingly, if the law would permit.…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the county commissioners of Lincoln county in laying out a town way in Dresden.
The error alleged, and to which the exceptions relate, is in these *367words. Because “it does not appear by the record of the proceedings and adjudication of the county commissioners that it was considered or adjudged by them that the municipal officers of the said town of Dresden had unreasonably neglected or refused to lay out said town way, or that said court of commissioners took any action or made any adjudication thereto.”
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2Cited by2 opinions
- Warchalowski v. BrownSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
- State v. MorganMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910