Gregory v. Knight

This proceeding was begun by Albert Stookey, highway commissioner, before a justice of the peace of Jackson county, to remove encroachments from a highway. Mr. Gregory, the person summoned, denied both the encroachments and the existence of the highway as one regularly laid out, and did not appear or recognize the validity of the inquest.

Leaving all other considerations out of view, it is enough for the disposition of these proceedings to call attention to the fact that neither the notices nor the finding of the jury furnish any means of ascertaining the extent of the alleged encroachments,…