Yeatter v. Myers

This case involves only the question of law as to what right, if any, a township highway commissioner in laying out a highway has to deviate from the exact course described in a petition therefor. This necessitates a construction of section 4289, 1 Comp. Laws 1915. The defendant, as highway commissioner of Colon township, St. Joseph county, was properly petitioned to lay out a highway along the east and west quarter line of section 23. This line for a distance of 80 rods constitutes the northerly boundary of land owned by plaintiffs, and extends through a pond hole located partially on…