Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 1891

Inhabitants of Phillips v. County Commissioners

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Decided June 1, 1891 · Haskell, Libbey, Peters, Virgin, Walton, Whitehouse

83 Me. 541; 22 A. 385; 1891 Me. LEXIS 77

Counsel

F. F. Timberlake, for petitioners., F. A. Sawyer, for respondents.

Opinion of the Court

Virgin, J.

When an appeal has been taken from the decision of county commissioners in laying out a highway, all objections to their jurisdiction or their otherwise invalid proceedings may be taken when the report of the committee is offered for acceptance in the Supreme Judicial Court. Small v. Pennell, 31 Maine, 267 ; Scarboro’ v. Co. Com. 41 Maine, 605 ; Goodwin v. Co. Com. 60 Maine, 328 ; Hodgdon v. Co. Com. 68 Maine, *543226 ; White v. Co. Com. 70 Maine, 317, 325. And if not then taken no writ of certiorari will be sustained to quash their proceedings. Monaghan v. Longfellow, 82 Maine, 419.

Exceptions overruled.

Peters, C. J., Walton, Libbey, Haskell and Whitehouse, JJ., concurred.

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