State v. Shreve
Supreme Court of New Jersey
ON CERTIORARI. THIS certiorari was directed to the Common Pleas of Burlington county, to bring up the proceedings, return, and record of a road in that county. The reasons relied upon to set aside the return, with the facts as they were exhibited to the court, sufficiently appear in the opinion which was delivered. Ewing was of counsel with plaintiff in certiorari. Wall for the defendant. Southard J. dissented on the first point.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court.
Kirkpatrick C. J.
This writ is directed to the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Burlington, to remove their proceedings touching the laying out of a certain public highway, beginning at Julius-Town in the township of Springfield, and running to Taylor’s hill-top, in the Reckless-Town road, in the township of Mansfield, in the said county.
*338The reasons insisted upon for setting aside the proceedings of the court in this case, and vacating the return of the road, and the record thereof, are these,
1. That neither the application of the freeholders…
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