Inhabitants of Gray v. County Commissioners
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was an appeal from the decision of the county commissioners, for the County of Cumberland, in locating a town way in the town of Gray.
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On exceptions. This was an appeal from the decision of the county commissioners, for the County of Cumberland, in locating a town way in the town of Gray. The municipal officers having on petition of these petitioners, refused to locate said way, they within one year thereafter presented their petition to the county commissioners, who after due notice viewed the way, heard the parties and adjudged the way to be of common convenience and necessity, and located the same and made due return of their doings at their next regular session after the hearing, which was on the first Tuesday of…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
The county commissioners located a town way which it was alleged the municipal officers unreasonably refused to lay out, and made return of their doings at their next regular session after the hearing. The appellants appeared at that session and took an appeal to the next term of the Supreme Judicial Court. The motion to dismiss the appeal was overruled by the court and a committee appointed to determine whether the judgment of the county commissioners should be in whole or in jiart affirmed or reversed. At the next term of that court, the report of the committee reversing the judgment of the…
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