Commonwealth v. Sheldon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a certiorari to the Court of Sessions for this county, to remove into this Court the proceedings of the Sessions, touching the laying out a certain town-way in New Marlborough.
1Opinion of the Court
Upon the application of sundry inhabitants, the selectmen had laid out a certain way, and reported the same to the town, at a public meeting regularly notified and warned, for their approbation and allowance. The town refused to approve and allow it, whereupon the respondents applied to the Sessions, who, without notifying or hearing the town, appointed a committee of three freeholders to lay out the way, if they, upon a view of the ground, should judge it proper so to do. The committee notified the town and all other parties, and after a full examination and hearing, laid out the way, and…
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