Hill v. Bridges
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of error to the Circuit court of Wilcox. At a term of the Commissioners’ court, began and ’held for the county of Wilcox, at the court-house thereof, on the first Monday in February, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the petition of sundry citizens of said county was received, praying for the opening of a publie road from the court-house in said county, to the Alabama river, at Hill’s Bluff, on the land of the plaintiff in error; which said petition having been heard, an…
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Writ of error to the Circuit court of Wilcox. At a term of the Commissioners’ court, began and ’held for the county of Wilcox, at the court-house thereof, on the first Monday in February, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the petition of sundry citizens of said county was received, praying for the opening of a publie road from the court-house in said county, to the Alabama river, at Hill’s Bluff, on the land of the plaintiff in error; which said petition having been heard, an order was made, appointing a jury to view and mark out said road, and that they should report at the May term next…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthw Aite, J.
The material question presented b'y the record, in this case, is, whether a writ of error will lie, to revise the judgment of the court of commissioners bf the roads and revenue, in relation to a refusal to lay out a road.
The discretion reposed in that court, is of so peculiar a nature, in relatien to their jurisdiction over roads, and many other matters, that it is difficult to perceive for what reason it could be supposed, that this or any other court is invested with power to revise its judgments.
In acting on such subjects, many matters must necessarily influence the judgment of the…
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