Case Name: Weathered v. Bray
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1856-06-19
Citations: 7 Ind. 706
Docket Number: 
Parties: Weathered v. Bray.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 706–706

Head Matter:
Weathered v. Bray.
A motion in arrest of judgment is an affirmance of the verdict.
It is no answer to a suit for obstructing a highway, that the defendant opened another way through which travel could pass.
Thursday, June 19.
APPEAL from the Hendricks Circuit Court.
C. C. Nave, for the appellant.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
In this case the record does not purport to contain all the evidence. Meeker v. Patty, 6 Ind. 467. And, further, a motion in arrest of judgment was made before the motion for a new trial. The motion in arrest was an affirmance of the verdict. McKinney v. Springer, 6 Ind. R. 453.—Doe v. Clark, id. 466.
It should be mentioned that the defendant offered to prove that he had made another way in which travel could pass; but that was no justification for obstructing the legal highway. A man has not a right to close and open highways according to his own fancy.
The judgment is affirmed with costs.