Hitchcock v. County Commissioners

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Hitchcock v. County Commissioners, 131 Mass. 519 (Mass. 1881)

Hitchcock v. County Commissioners

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

It appearing that a second road between the same termini has been laid out and accepted by the town, by the construction of which the county commissioners, in their answer to this petition for a writ of mandamus, state the public convenience and necessity for a road will be fully satisfied, the court should not revise the opinion of the commissioners upon that question, and, in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion, ought not to issue a writ of mandamus to compel the construction of the first road. Hill v. County Commissioners, 4 Gray, 414. Thorpe v. County Commissioners, 9 Gray, 57, 59.

This ground being decisive of the case, it is unnecessary to determine the more important and difficult questions presented by the report and argued at the bar. Petition dismissed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Miner Hitchcock v. County Commissioners of Hampden
Status
Published