Bourgeois v. Mills

Citations

• 60 Tex. 76
• 1883 Tex. LEXIS 266

Syllabus

<p>1. Public roads.— The act of July 29, 1876, to regulate the laying out, opening, classifying and working public roads, confers on the commissioners’ court of each county full jurisdiction over the subject, within the limits of their respective counties, to be exercised in its discretion. When it is clearly shown that its power over the subject has been transcended or grossly abused, the revisory power of the district court may be exercised.</p> <p>2. Same.—That the commissioners of review had allowed no damages to one through whose land a public road was laid out, or that he was prevented by sickness from appearing before the commissioners of review, affords no ground for exercising the revisory power of the district court.</p>