Williams v. Babcock

In this appeal from the dismissal of plaintiff’s petition for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief the issues involve the rights of plaintiff in a purportedly discontinued highway running through land of defendant and past her property. At a hearing the Master (Howard B. Lane, Sr., Esq.) made certain findings and recommended that the petition be dismissed because plaintiff had an adequate remedy at law under RSA 234:18-a which authorizes a person who has no access to his land to “petition the selectmen to lay out, subject to gates and bars, a highway located where any previously…