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Pennsylvania v. John Oliphant and Andrew Oliphant
INDICTMENT for a nuisance in obstructing a water-course, so as to overflow an high way.
The obstruction was a dam for a forge. It did not appear, that the road had ever been laid out by any authority.
objected to going into any evidence, until a copy of the order of the court of Quarter Sessions, confirming the road, should be produced.
gave up the prosecution, and assented to a verdict of acquittal.