Mansur v. County Commissioners
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Petition for certiorari. The petition dated February 26, 1887, for the laying out of a road from New Sweden to Fort Kent, in Aroostook county, under the provisions of § 41, chapter 18, of Revised Statutes, was presented to the County Commissioners, at their adjourned January term, 1887, held on March 14, 1887, when they determined that there ought to bo a hearing on said petition., and ordered notice to be given for a hearing on June 6, 1887,, which notice was…
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On exceptions. Petition for certiorari. The petition dated February 26, 1887, for the laying out of a road from New Sweden to Fort Kent, in Aroostook county, under the provisions of § 41, chapter 18, of Revised Statutes, was presented to the County Commissioners, at their adjourned January term, 1887, held on March 14, 1887, when they determined that there ought to bo a hearing on said petition., and ordered notice to be given for a hearing on June 6, 1887,, which notice was duly given. On said June G, they had a hearing, and proceeded to view the route, and on June 13„ 1887, they adjudged…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
By 11. S., c. 18, § 41, county commissioners may lay out roads through lands not within any town or plantation required to raise money to make and repair higlrways, all expenses for making the same to be paid by the owners of the lands. The mode of proceeding in such case is pointed out in succeeding sections. By E. S., c. 6, § 78, provision is made for assessing the expenses upon such lands and for their collection.
The clause of the section that is questioned in this case, reads *518thus : "When a road is Mid over lands under section forty-one of chapter eighteen, the county commissioners shall…
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