People ex rel. Bristol v. Board of Supervisors
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari: To Tbe Board of Supervisors of tbe County of Ingbam. In 1849, certain Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of 1848, (Laws of 18J¡8, p. %%0), laid out and established a State Road from Marshall, in the County of Calhoun, by the way of Duck Lake and Baton Rapids, (in Baton County), to Lansing, in the County of Ingham. The road passing through the townships of Delhi and Lansing in the last named county.
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Certiorari: To Tbe Board of Supervisors of tbe County of Ingbam. In 1849, certain Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of 1848, (Laws of 18J¡8, p. %%0), laid out and established a State Road from Marshall, in the County of Calhoun, by the way of Duck Lake and Baton Rapids, (in Baton County), to Lansing, in the County of Ingham. The road passing through the townships of Delhi and Lansing in the last named county. The road is alleged to have been opened and worked and used as a public highway for over fifteen years. On the loth day of October, 1867, the Board of Supervisors of the County…
1Opinion of the CourtChristiancy, J.
If the action of the Board of Supervisors under the then existing law, constituted of itself, or with the aid of the subsequent act of the Legisla!ure of March 30, 1869, (ratifying and legalizing that action ), a valid discontinuance of part of the state road in question, then there is no ground for maintaining this certiorari, and the discontinuance must be affirmed, otherwise reversed.
By the act of May 16, 1846, {Latos of 1846, p. 240) it was enacted Section 1, “That the Board of Supervisors of the several counties within this State are hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be laid…
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