Supreme Judicial Court of Maine April 15, 1847 (Inhabitants of Windham v. Cumberland County Commissioners)

The opinion of the Court was drawn up by

Teotey J.

The petition, under which the respondents undertook to locate and establish the way in question, represented that the public highway, as traveled from Raymond and other towns mentioned, and the Northern parts of New Hampshire, through those towns to the city of Portland, was subject to great complaint on account of certain hills in Windham,