Case ID: njl_7/html/0043-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Matter of Road.
    The petition of the freeholders for the laying out a road in two counties, must be signed by ten freeholders in each county.
    Note. — Sec the act relating to highways. Pat. N. J. Laws 387, sec. 6, Rev. Laws, 61Q, see. 3.
    
      Plornblower moved, on a petition of ton freeholders of the county of Morris, for the appointment of surveyors to lay out a road in the counties of Morris and Bergen.
    The court said they inclined to think the law required that the petition should be signed by ten freeholders from each county.
    
      Ilornblower cited 2 Pen. Pep. 665-6, whore the Chief Justice said, it had been adjudged that ten freeholders in all were sufficient.
   Per Curiam,.

It is true, that as the act formerly stood, we had fallen into an idea that there need be only five from each county; but, upon reflection, we think there must be ten freeholders from each county where the road is applied for, to be laid out in two counties. The petition, therefore, will be refused, as it is deficient in two particulars; it has not ten from each county, nor even five from each county, it has only ton from one county, which has never been held sufficient.

Motion denied.