Citation Numbers: 58 Me. 348
Judges: Appleton, Cutting, Danforth, Kent, Tapley, Walton
Filed Date: 7/1/1870
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/24/2021
A highway may be proved by long-continued user. A sidewalk may be shown to exist in the same way. The repairing of a way or bridge within six years before the cause of action accrued, estops the town to deny the location of the way or bridge on which the injury occurred. B. S. 1857, c. 18, § 62. The same principle applies to a sidewalk as to the way.
The instruction was too restricted. It limits the liability of the
Exceptions sustained.