State v. Crow

Cole, Ch. J.

The defendant was indicted for obstructing a public highway. The evidence tended to show the use of the highway in controversy by the public, and the acquiescence therein by the owners of the land for more than ten years prior to the alleged obstruction; also, that the same had been surveyed and laid out as a public highway, forty feet in width, by order of the board of county commissioners in 1848 — said survey and order showing the road to be for eight miles on the half-mile line through certain named sections, including the place obstructed; and it further tended to show that…