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10 Ky. 167

Walker v. Corn

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided December 13, 1820

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1820-12-13

<p>It is error to alter a road, before the party, thro’ whose land the change will take it, lias been summoned to contest it.</p>

Decided 1820-12-13

The Chief Justice

¶1delivered the opinion.

¶2This is a writ of error to an order of the Clarke county court, establishing an alteration in the site of a public road.

¶3The errors assigned question, as well the sufficiency of the order appointing viewers and their report, as the propriety of the order establishing the alteration.

¶4The order appointing viewers, and their report, we think substantially conform to the requisitions of the law; but the order establishing the alteration of the road was improperly made, without having previously summoned the plaintiffs in error, through whose land the road, as altered, passes, to shew cause, if any they had, against it.

¶5The order establishing the alteration must therefore be reversed with costs, and the cause be remanded for ceedings to be had, not inconsistent herewith.

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