Locke Development Corp. v. Town of Barnstead

Petition by the plaintiff to the superior court under RSA 234:28 for laying out as class V highways several existing roads located at Locke Lake Colony in Barnstead. The selectmen failed to act on a similar petition dated January 17, 1972, filed with them under RSA 234:1 (Supp. 1973). The voters of Barnstead at the town meeting of March 11, 1972, defeated a warrant article which would have authorized such a petition to the selectmen to lay out these roads as highways. The present petition was referred under RSA 234:31 to the county commissioners who took a view and held hearings on May 24 and…