Shue v. Highway Commissioner

On the 6th day of November, 1878, a petition was made to respondent to lay out a highway from the center of section 8 to the center of section 9 along the quarter lines, in the township of Richmond. This is the paper contained in Shue’s case.

On the 29fch of November he made his return to the town clerk showing that he had laid out such highway. It was accompanied by what is called a survey, which contains nothing substantially more definite than the return itself and is entirely useless to settle the true location of the road under the ambiguity set forth in the affidavit for certiorari,…