Epler v. Niman

Niman, a supervisor, sued Epler, before a justice of the peace, for obstructing a public highway. The suit was founded on section 126 of an act approved January 16, 1849. That section provides, that “If any person shall obstruct any public road,” &c., “ unnecessarily, and to the hindrance of passengers, such person shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars for every such offence, and the further sum of one dollar for each day he may suffer such obstruction to remain to the hindrance of passengers,” &c. Acts of 1849, p. 116. The charge is that' Epler did, on the 15th of March, 1850, at,…