Richards v. County Commissioners

The petitioners ask for a writ of mandamus, requiring the county commissioners to construct and complete parts of Main Street and Elm Street in the town of Attleborough, which the petition states they had widened, straightened and located anew, but which that town had refused to make and complete under the commissioners’ order.

The answer, signed by the commissioners, admits the facts stated in the petition; but denies that the roads in question were highways or county roads at the time of the order, averring that Elm Street was a town way; and, as to Main Street, referring to the case of…