Dickerson v. Comm'rs of Highways

Pleasants, J.. Appellant filed the bill herein on May 12, 1884, to perpetually enjoin appellees from taking other or further steps to open or lay out a public road three quarters of a mile in length as therein described, which would pass over his land in tire town of Bochester. A preliminary injunction was granted thereon, but upon final hearing was dissolved and the bill dismissed.

The facts are undisputed. On the 27th day of September, 1883, a petition was presented to the commissioners, predecessors of appellees, for a road identical with the one in question for a quarter of a mile, and…