5 W. Va. 57 | W. Va. | 1871
The complainants filed their bill and obtained an injunction to restrain the defendant Linton from opening a road through the lands of complainants, which they allege was not established according to law. The defendant alleges that the road which he was about to open was established by an order of the board of supervisors of Berkeley county, made on the 20th day of -June, 1868, as explained by another order made on the 10th day of August, 1868. The defendant alleges that the order establishing said road is-legalized by an act of the legislature, passed on the 27th day of -July, 1868. The injunction granted in the said cause was dissolved, and from the order dissolving it the appeal is taken. It is claimed for appellants that the road was not established by the proceedings before the board of supervisors, because appellants did not agree to accept tbe damages fixed by the viewers, and there was no writ of ad quod damnum, to assess
ORDER REVERSED.