Miller v. . Brown

The defendant justified his entry upon the land of the plaintiff upon the ground that the locus in quo was a public highway, and to establish its existence, produced from the town clerk's office, of the town of Brookhaven, a record purporting to have been made by two commissioners of highways of that town, in 1799, of the alteration of a road or highway, extending from the town road across the premises now owned by the plaintiff to the Sound; and laying out a new road over the same premises, on a new line for a part of the distance, intersecting the old road near the Sound, and thence…