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Public Road

5 Del. 242 5 Harr. 242 Court Del. Super. Ct. English

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PUBLIC ROAD.

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Petitioners for a public road are not proper commissioners.
In the matter of a road return in Kent county.

On the petition of sundry persons, praying an order to change the course of a certain public road, and a return changing the road accordingly; it was excepted to this return, that four of the five freeholders appointed were petitioners for the road, and therefore not impartial.

The return was set aside for this cause.