Case Name: UNITED STATES v. EMERY
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1832-11
Citations: 25 F. Cas. 1014
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. EMERY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 25
Pages: 1014–1014

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,052.
UNITED STATES v. EMERY.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 270.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1832.
Highways—Recording Location.
The road from Georgetown, D. C., to the Little Falls bridge, is not a public highway, be-ftiuse the location thereof was not recorded among the records of the territory of Columbia.
This- was an indictment for obstructing the highway between Georgetown, District of Columbia, and the Little Falls bridge, b'y blasting. rocks, etc.
C. Cox, for defendant,
contended that, as the location of the roád had never been “recorded among the records of the territory of Columbia," as required by the Maryland act of 1795, c. 44, § 2, it was not a public highway, and therefore the indictment could not be sustained.
[Reported by Hon. William Crunch, Chief J udge.]

Opinion:
And so THE COURT instructed the jury (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent).
See the case of U. S. v. Schwartz [Case No. 16,237].