Sumner's Petition
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Petition, in the common pleas, for a highway from a certain bridge in Claremont to a certain house in Charlestown. The petition set forth that “ there is occasion for a new highway in Claremont and the north part of Charlestown, running and turning off easterly from the river road, about eighty rods south from the southerly end of Lottery Bridge, so called, in Claremont, and running southerly, on or near the ground located for a road by the court committee in 1837, to the…
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Petition, in the common pleas, for a highway from a certain bridge in Claremont to a certain house in Charlestown. The petition set forth that “ there is occasion for a new highway in Claremont and the north part of Charlestown, running and turning off easterly from the river road, about eighty rods south from the southerly end of Lottery Bridge, so called, in Claremont, and running southerly, on or near the ground located for a road by the court committee in 1837, to the Lower Gully Brook ,• from thence, on the best ground for a road, to the house of Jesse Farwell, in Charlestown. Therefore…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
A large number of exceptions have been taken in this case, which we have not had occasion to consider, as the case will be finally disposed of by the judgment of the court upon one class of them, to which, therefore, we confine our opinion.
The exceptions which this court have been called upon to consider are founded upon the fact that the petition under which these proceedings were instituted, being for a “ highway in Claremont and the north part of Charlestown,” the commissioners to whom the petition was referred have reported and located a route wholly within the town of Claremont ; and so,…
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