State ex rel. Supervisors of Otto v. Austin
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Certiorari, directed to a justice of the peace of Otter Tail county, to review proceedings taken on an attempted appeal from a determination by the board of supervisors of the town of Otto in discontinuing and laying out a highway.
1Opinion of the CourtDicKINson, J.
There is here brought in question the validity of an appeal by one Jewell from an order of town supervisors to the respondent, a justice of the peace. The order appealed from discontinued an old road and laid out a new one. . The filing of a bond with sufficient sureties is essential for the purpose of perfecting an appeal, and to give to the justice jurisdiction. Gen. St. 1878, c. 13, § 60; State v. Fitch, 30 Minn. 532, (16 N. W. Rep. 411.) The bond filed in this case purports, in the body of it, to be the obligation of Charles W. Jewell, as principal, and of two others as sureties, and is…
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