Superior Court of Delaware July 5, 1854 (State v. Peckard)

INDICTED for obstructing a highway — "Clinton street, Delaware City." It, was admitted that the street was a highway, and the defendant did the acts complained of. The question was, whether it amounted to a nuisance. Defendant hauled one hundred to one hundred and fifty loads of earth from the road on to private property. He cut down below the established grade.