Flanders v. Colebrook
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition of George W. Flanders and others for a highway in the town of Colebrook. The route designated by the petition was as follows : “ Beginning at a point where the Hollow road, so called, intersects with the highway leading from the River road in said Colebrook, past the dwelling-house of Daniel C. Bumford to South Hill in Stew-artstown in said county, thence running in a south-westerly direction to a stake and stones standing in front of the store of Hazen Bedel & Co.,…
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Petition of George W. Flanders and others for a highway in the town of Colebrook. The route designated by the petition was as follows : “ Beginning at a point where the Hollow road, so called, intersects with the highway leading from the River road in said Colebrook, past the dwelling-house of Daniel C. Bumford to South Hill in Stew-artstown in said county, thence running in a south-westerly direction to a stake and stones standing in front of the store of Hazen Bedel & Co., in said Colebrook.” The commissioners laid out a highway as follows : “ Beginning at a point where the Hollow road, so…
1Opinion of the CourtBellows, C. J.
The new highway prayed for begins at a point where the Hollow road intersects with the road to Colebrook, then in a south-westerly direction to a stake and stones standing in front of Ilazen Bedel’s store.
From the report of the commissioners this terminus would seem to be in an existing highway, and on reaching it the commissioners laid a road intersecting the road to Colebrook more than one hundred rods before striking said terminus, and for the remainder of the way laid this road over and upon the existing highway to said terminus; and the question is, whether the laying out is such a…
2Cited by1 opinion
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