Wallace v. Bradshaw

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Depue, J.

This was an action brought by Wallace, as overseer of the roads of the township óf Woolwich, in the county of Gloucester, against Bradshaw, an inhabitant of saidl township, to recover the penalty prescribed by the fifty-third' section of the Road act. Rev., p. 1006.

*316By section 38 it is made the duty of the overseer of highways to hire laborers and horses, wagons, &c., to Open, work ¡and repair the highways, and by section 39 the money necessary to defray the costs and expenses thereof is required to be raised by a tax, the same as other…