Wentworth v. Rochester
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, on the statute for damage happening to a traveller. The alleged highway was not laid out in the mode prescribed by statute, and has not been used twenty years for public travel. For several months prior to the accident the town was engaged in erecting a bridge over the Cocheco river on the main road, and during all that time caused guide-boards to be erected and maintained along the main road, directing the travel over the way in question.
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Case, on the statute for damage happening to a traveller. The alleged highway was not laid out in the mode prescribed by statute, and has not been used twenty years for public travel. For several months prior to the accident the town was engaged in erecting a bridge over the Cocheco river on the main road, and during all that time caused guide-boards to be erected and maintained along the main road, directing the travel over the way in question. The plaintiff travelled over the way by reason of said directions.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Tilton v. Pittsfield, 58 N. H. 327, is affirmed.
Nonsuit.
Allen, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Tilton v. PittsfieldSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1878