Court Opinion

ID: 7385399
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 00:15:52.735137+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:21:31.640879
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Hall, Judge.
In the case of Hawkins v. The County of Randolph, (1 Murph. 118) it was decided that an appeal would not lie to the Superior Court, from an order of the County Court, concerning a public road. By the act of 1813, (Rev. ch. 862) an appeal is given in such cases, but nothing is said either by the Court in the case of Wood v. Hood, or by the Legislature in that act, respecting private ways or cartways ; jurisdiction of which is given to the County Courts, by the act of 1798.
In Wood v. Hood, it was held, that a petition for a cartway so far resembled a petition for a public road, that an appeal would not lie from a decision made on it, before the passage of the act of 1813, and that the act gave an appeal.
I think the act of 1813, does not give an appeal with respect to cartways, &c.~ but is confined altogether to public roads. In the present case, the appeal is proper under the act of 1777, it being á contest between two individuals, and it does not fall within the reasons upon which an appeal was refused, with regard to public roads.
The judgment of the Superior Court, dismissing the appeal, must therefore be reversed, and the cause remanded. .
Per Curiam. — Judgment of the Court below reversed and writ of procedendo awarded.