City of Biddeford v. County Commissioners

Petition for certiorari, to quash the record of the county commissioners for the county of York, for want of jurisdiction.

The city council of Biddeford refused to locate and lay out a street in the city of Biddeford, and the commissioners, on application, proceeded to locate and lay out the same. B. S., c. 18, sec. 19, provides that "when the municipal officers unreasonably neglect or refuse to lay out, or alter, a town way,” the commissioners, upon proper application, may determine the matter. They have jurisdiction only when given by statute. Belfast v. Co. Com. of Waldo County, 52 Maine,…