People ex rel. Kipp v. Finger

The mandate of the legislature is, that the commissioners of highways of the town of Livingston shall build a bridge over the Roeliff Jansen’s kill, upon or near the site of the old bridge. But there may have been more than one old bridge over the kill. The act itself speaks of another bridge over the same stream, known as the Blue Store Bridge. That is not the bridge intended. It is where a bridge once stood in the neighborhood of the old block factory. It is thus the legislature indicate the bridge they design to have rebuilt. It is to be built “ upon or near the site of the old bridge,”…