Johnson v. Keesler
New York Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtSenn, J.
This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the respondent, as superintendent of highways of the town of - Kirkwood, Broome county, N. Y., to repair and make passable for safe and convenient public travel a certain highway in said town two rods wide and running from the Bartlett road (so called) easterly about eighty rods to the farm and premises now owned by Willis B. Johnson, the petitioner.
*608The road in question is commonly known as the Gurnsey road, and its history is briefly this: In the year 1850, on the consent of the owners of the land through which it ran, the commissioner of highways of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- City of Cohoes v. President of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
- People Ex Rel. Williams v. KingmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- People ex rel. Smith v. AllenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
3Cited by1 opinion
- People ex rel. Johnson v. KesslerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1933