Woodruff v. . People
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered July 6, 1908, in favor of defendants, upon the submission of a controversy under section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the controversy and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
This was an attempt to submit a controversy pursuant to section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure. All that the record of submission shows is that on the 9th of May, 1908, the plaintiff presented a petition to the highway commissioners at the town of Arietta, Hamilton county, alleging certain facts and asking those officers to lay out a highway in said town. They refused to do so, upon the ground that they had no jurisdiction, because some of the lands through which the proposed highway was to be opened constituted part of the forest preserve. Some other facts were set forth in the…
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