Commonwealth v. Adney

Upon an indictment found at August term 1826, against Abney for obstructing a public road, the attorney for the Commonwealth gave evidence, that for sixteen or seventeen years, which was as far *478bark as the witnesses bad been acquainted with the two roads across Green river, the one from the top of the bill to Abney’s ferry. The other from the top of the bill to the ford, about one hundred yards below the ferry, both these roads had been used as public highways; both roads bad been worked on by the bands, and kept in repair by the surveyors appointed by the. county court; that the, said roads…