People ex rel. Case v. Collins

Decided 1837-10-15

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By the Court, Cowen, J. Taking the return of the defendants to be correct, as on this motion we must do in settling the question of a peremptory mandamus, the route adopted by the commissioners under the statute was strikingly injudicious. That, however, is" not enough to warrant the disobedience of the town commissioners. They are required by the statute to open and work such road as should be laid out by the commissione…

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