Hart v. Trustees of Bloomfield Township ex rel. Weir

The appellees, who were the plaintiffs, instituted this suit before a justice of the peace, against Hart, alleging in their complaint, that the defendant did, unnecessarily, and to the hindrance of passengers, obstruct a certain highway, (describing it,) and still continues such obstruction, wherefore, &c. Before the justice, the plaintiffs obtained judgment, from which the defendant appealed. In the Common Pleas there was a trial of the cause, which resulted in a similar judgment.

The evidence is not all in the record; but the Court, to whom the cause was submitted for trial,at the instance…