A

TREATISE

ON THE

LAW OF HIGHWAYS.

BY

JOSEPH K. ANGELL AND THOMAS DURFEE.

SECOND EDITION,

WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES TO THE LATER CASES.

BY GEORGE F. CHOATE.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1868.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

IN preparing a second edition of this treatise, it has been the purpose to follow the plan of the first, and, avoiding the discussion of questions under the local statutes, to consider only those of general application. The consideration of the great labor, with so small hope of success, of an attempt to classify and arrange the multitude of decisions upon questions arising under the various statutes of the different States, would have prevented an undertaking which in its best execution could not be of very general profit or interest, even if I had been presumptuous enough to suppose that I could improve upon the original plan as designed by so eminent and successful a writer as Mr. Angell. In the process of revision, additions and alterations have been made in the body of the work where the course of decisions seemed to require, and notes and references given to the cases determined since the first edition, so as to give as concisely as I might the existing state of the law upon the subject, as developed by the decis- . ions of later date, and its present application. The Table of Cases has, of course, been enlarged by the addition of the cases since the former edition, and the Index increased by more full and copious references to the topics treated of in the book, so as to give, it is hoped, greater facility of reference to any subject sought.

SALEM, June, 1868.