Peters v. Little

Lumpkin, Justice.

The error complained of in this case was the refusal of the judge of the superior court to sanction a petition for certiorari. This petition alleged, in substance, the following facts: The plaintiff, Mrs. Peters, presented to the ordinary of Pulton county a petition against Joseph Little, praying for the removal of obstructions placed by him in a private way of which she had been in the uninterrupted and continuous use for more than seven years. The evidence introduced before the ordinary showed that Mrs. Peters had used as a private way, for a period of more than two years,…