Moore v. Decker

Samuel J. Harris,

Official Referee. Proceeding brought by the petitioners, landowners, for an order compelling the respondent town superintendent of highways to work and maintain a road. This road is conceded by both parties to be a town highway ; it is approximately one-half mile in length and is the only means of reaching and leaving certain lands owned by the petitioners. The present condition of the road is such that it is impassable except on foot. The respondent has refused to work and maintain the road on the ground that it has been abandoned either wholly or by a qualified abandonment…