Lewis v. Washington
Supreme Court of Virginia
On the 3d of September 1846, the County Court of King George, on the motion of Henry T. Washington, appointed viewers to view the ground along which a road was proposed to be opened, from a point on the road leading out from his house to the public road which leads to King George courthouse, passing for a part of the way on the line between said Washington and Daingerfield Lewis, and then through the lands of r J-jGWIS.
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On the 3d of September 1846, the County Court of King George, on the motion of Henry T. Washington, appointed viewers to view the ground along which a road was proposed to be opened, from a point on the road leading out from his house to the public road which leads to King George courthouse, passing for a part of the way on the line between said Washington and Daingerfield Lewis, and then through the lands of r J-jGWIS. The viewers reported that a road was indispensably necessary to the ingress and egress of Washington from residence to the public road; and that there was no route whatever on…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The authority of the County Courts to establish public roads, is a branch of their police jurisdiction, conferred for the benefit of all the citizens of the county, and to be exercised at the common expense, out of the revenue derived from the county levy. The use, convenience *269and advantage of the public, contemplated by the law, , . . . - , r , . are benefits arising out of the aggregate of such improvements, to which each particular road so established contributes in a greater or less degree. But no limitation upon the power of the Court, in regard to any proposed road, is to be found in…
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