People ex rel. Phillips v. Highway Commissioner

Graves, J.:

A review is asked by relator of proceedings for a discontinuance of a piece of a public highway known as the “ Lozen road,” in the township of China. A brief is furnished on his side, but the town authorities do not appear. The objection to the proceedings relates to notice, and in this respect the record presents the same difficulty pointed out in Ross v. High*15way Commissioners of Taylor, 32 Mich., 301; and that case explicitly decides this, unless the *peculiar sitúation of the relator creates an exception. He owns forty acres lying a little back, and a private way therefrom, two…