Norris v. Haverhill

The objection is taken that tbe laying out of tbe highway was void, because no sufficient terminus was specified as a starting-point in the petition. To avoid unnecessary expense and delay, objections to the form of a petition for a highway should be made, as a general rule, at the first opportunity. This objection being to the form of the petition, and not seasonably taken, was waived. Bacheler v. New Hampton, 60 N. H. 207.

The defendants claimed at the trial that the plaintiff, on the facts in the case, was not a traveller on the highway at the time of the accident, and requested the court…