Moll v. Benckler

Tbe defendant, wbo was an overseer of highways, removed a fence by order of the supervisors of bis town, which bad been erected by the plaintiff on bis own premises, but in what is alleged to be a public highway. Tbe order of the town supervisors, which it is claimed constituted the locus in quo, a public highway, is as follows: “ Upon application of six or more freeholders, the supervisors of the above named town met and laid out a road, described as follows: commencing 80 rods south of the section line between sections 7 and 18, on the one-eighth line on the northeast quarter of section 18,…