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[1774] Hailes 577      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 JURISDICTION - HIGHWAYS.

Thomas Potts and Others
v.
The Trustees of the Turnpike Roads in the Shire of Roxburgh

Date: 28 June 1774

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This case depended chiefly on matters of fact. Some important questions however occurred in it, and received determination.

The Court was of opinion, that it had a jurisdiction to inquire whether the trustees had exceeded the powers committed to them by statute.

The Court was also of opinion, that any person who touched the turnpike road, was bound to pay toll; and that there was no legal difference between going in the road a yard, or a hundred yards, or a mile: that, in such case, the only remedy lay in the equitable power of composition intrusted with the commissioners.

Act. Ilay Campbell. Alt. H. Dundas. Reporter, Coalston.

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