Legal Opinion
In Re Return County Commissioners of Aroostook County
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 29, 1968PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.
The County Commissioners of Aroostook, on petition of residents of the county and after notice and hearing, laid out a county road from Ashland, Maine to the Maine-Quebec border, running through Ashland, Garfield Plantation, and several unorganized townships a distance of approximately ninety miles over an existing private road. In their return the Commissioners recited: “Believing no persons to be injured by the laying out of said County Road, or liable to be injured thereby, we have not awarded damages to anyone.” The Commissioners base their authority for laying…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Carter v. WilkinsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1964
- Inhabitants of Levant v. County CommissionersSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1877
- Inhabitants of North Berwick v. State Board of EducationSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1967
- Morrison v. McDonaldSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1842
- Waukeag Ferry Ass'n v. AreySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1929
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Comber v. Inhabitants of Plantation of DennistownSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
- CITY OF DOTHAN PERSONNEL BD. v. DeVaneCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 2002
- State Board of Education v. CoombsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1973
- Brown v. WarchalowskiSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984
- Brown v. WarchalowskiSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984