People v. Denslow
New York Supreme Court
The defendant had been tried, and found guilty, at the last court of oyer and terminer for Columbia count/, on an indiftment for obstructing, in the city of Hudson, a public road or highway, leading from Poughkeepsie to Kinder-hook.
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The defendant had been tried, and found guilty, at the last court of oyer and terminer for Columbia count/, on an indiftment for obstructing, in the city of Hudson, a public road or highway, leading from Poughkeepsie to Kinder-hook. On the trial, it was proved, that the defendant v/ae, under the appointment of the president and directors of che Columbia turnpike, keeper of a toll-gate, standing in the city of Hudson, direftly across the road mentioned in the indictment, and which had been a public road for more than 40 years. On the part of the defendant, the exemplifications of two acts* of…
1Per curiam
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Spencer. The only question is, whether the ereftion of the gate, at the distance from Van Hoesen’s house, mentioned in the case, is an ereftion within the words of the aft. There are two afts of the legislature to,be referred to on this occasion. The first is the aft of incorporation, passed the 29th March, 1799, establishing a turnpike corporation, by the name of the president, direftors, and company of the Columbia turnpike road; the second enafted on the 28th of March, 1800, to amend the firstactand route by certain particular alterations. The situation of the most westerly…
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