10 Kan. 95 | Kan. | 1872
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The main question in this case, and the only one which we think it is necessary to consider, is, whether a county, when the commissioners thereof vacate a county road, is liable in damages to any person who may sustain some loss in consequence thereof. We think a county is not so liable. There is no statute that makes it liable, and we know of no principle of the common law that would create such liability. The county through its officers has an undoubted legal right to vacate county roads. (Ch. 89, Gen. Stat., 897, et seq.) And neither the county nor its officers commit any wrong by so doing; nor do they take any person’s property; and therefore, if any consequential loss .results to any individual it must be damnum absque injuria. Nor can it make any difference that the party claiming damages has some interest in the road different from that of the public in