Finney v The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Birkenhead    Highways – Repairable by inhabitants at large – Adoption of Street – Exception of footway –
Notice to repair footway – Make, curb, flag and complete – Asphalt substituted for flags –
Recovery of cost.
The predecessors of the respondent corporation by notice adopted H Road under the Public
Health Act 1875 s 152. In accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Act 1925, the
respondents prepared a list of roads repairable by the inhabitants at large. H Road was therein
stated to be repairable by the local authority as to the carriageway, but not as to the footway.
There was some evidence that the road had never been made up. The respondents were
empowered by