39 Kan. 109 | Kan. | 1888
Opinion by
The controlling question is, whether the township, under the circumstances of this case, can maintain such an action. The action is one to permanently restrain the defendant, who is the road overseer of his district, from preventing or interfering with the township trustee in removing an obstruction to a public highway, located on or through the land of the road overseer, or from further obstructing the same. Conceding all that is claimed by the plaintiff in error, by virtue of §3, ch. 153, Laws of 1871, still this action cannot be maintained, for the apparent object of the litigation is to determine the legality of the road; and for the settlement of that question there is a plain and adequate remedy at law. It is not asserted in the petition itself, or claimed by counsel, that it is an action for a violation of any of the provisions of the road law; but it does involve the legality of the road, and this must be established before any liability can be adjudged against the defendant in error. It would seem as if there was an adjudication recited in the petition, which determines that the action of defendant with respect to this road is not a misdemeanor; that, in effect,
We recommend an affirmance of the judgment.
By the Court: It is so ordered.