State v. Siegel

This is an action qui tarn to recover, penalties against the defendant, as1 chairman of the town board of supervisors, for neglecting to erect guide-boards at the intersection of certain main traveled and legally laid out roads, under section 1227, R. S. The plaintiff, on the trial, failed to prove that such roads had ever been laid out according to the provisions of the statute for laying out highways, but offered to prove that they had been used by the public as highways for over twenty years, which offer was refused, and a nonsuit was granted. The only question, therefore, is whether the…