Hinckley v. Dennison
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Livingston; Miner, J. Bill by E. Wray Hinckley, highway commissioner of the township of Hamburg, and others, against James Dennison for an injunction to prevent defendant from obstructing a public highway. From a decree for complainants, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
The bill of complaint was filed in this suit to restrain defendant from closing a road extending in an easterly and westerly direction across his farm of 80 acres, which is described as the E. £ of the N. E. J of section 11 in Hamburg township, Livingston county. Complainants are the commissioner of highways and township board of said township.
The issue in this case is whether this way is a legal highway, open to public travel, or a private road. It is *362undisputed that the road was originally opened and used, in the early settlement of that locality, as a private road by two pioneers named…
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