Stevens v. County Commissioners
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Writ of certiorari quashed. This was a hearing on a writ of certiorari commanding the county commissioners of Somerset County “to send and bring and have before our said justices of our said court .... the full record of their proceedings upon said petition of the said Sarah E. Stevens with all things touching the same fully and entirely, as the same remain before them, by whatever names the parties are therein called,” that the court might determine whether the…
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On report. Writ of certiorari quashed. This was a hearing on a writ of certiorari commanding the county commissioners of Somerset County “to send and bring and have before our said justices of our said court .... the full record of their proceedings upon said petition of the said Sarah E. Stevens with all things touching the same fully and entirely, as the same remain before them, by whatever names the parties are therein called,” that the court might determine whether the record should be quashed for the second reason set out in the writ, the first having been abandoned. That reason is…
1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.
Certiorari to quash the proceedings of the county commissioners of Somerset County in laying out a winter road. All the proceedings, from the petition to selectmen to the judgment of the commissioners, were regular and in proper form.
The selectmen, upon proper petition, laid out the road, as prayed for, over the land of the petitioner. The petitioner appealed from their decision to the court of county commissioners. The county commissioners, upon proper notice and hearing, confirmed and adopted the action of the selectmen.
The petitioner then appealed from the decision of the county…
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