King v. Reed
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Monroe county. Action by Victoria A. King and another, administrators of Alonzo F. King, against Joseph Reed, commissioner of highways of the town of Manchester, in the county of Ontario, to restrain defendant from laying out a highway. Plaintiffs appeal from an order vacating a temporary injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtMacomber, J.
The defendant’s predecessor, one Mr. Monroe, as the commissioner of highways of this town, laid out a highway running from and substantially continuing Church street, a country road running from Clifton Springs westward towards Shortsville, the new portion thereof being extended from near the east line of the lands of Samuel Dent, through bis farm and that of Alonzo F. King, the plaintiffs’ intestate, to a north and south road known as the “Barker Road,” and thence through the lands of Thomas W. Barker to the Sanger and the George A. Short farms, turning at *617the latter place southerly into the…
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