Curless v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Howard Circuit Court'; J. F. Elliott, Judge. Prosecution by The State of Indiana against John P. Cur-less. Prom a judgment of conviction, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonks, J.
Appellant was convicted on a charge of maintaining a public nuisance by the obstruction of a public highway.
The only error assigned is that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial.
It appears from the record that in 1903 appellant and others filed a petition before the Board of Commissioners of the County of Howard to vacate a public highway running across the land of appellant, and establish the same on the half-section line dividing his land and Hie land of one Downs. Such proceedings were had that said old highway was va*259eated, and a highway thirty feet wide…
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