Metsker v. Whitsell
Indiana Supreme Court
From Hamilton Circuit Court; Joseph Combs, Special Judge. Proceedings on the petition of William H. Whitsell and others for the improvement of a highway. From a judgment of the circuit court dismissing the appeal from the order of the board of commissioners, Hamilton Metsker and others appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, C. J.
Appellees, in March, 1912, filed their petition for the improvement of a rural highway, 5,400 feet in length, under the provisions of §7711 et seq. Burns 1908, Acts 1905 p. 521. The board of commissioners referred the matter for report, to J. S. Shannon, engineer, and John F. Passwater and Larkin Stultz, viewers. Subsequently a report was filed, signed by Shannon as engineer, and Passwater as viewer, in which it was recited that the proposed improvement would be of public utility, and that *131there should be used as a paving material, gravel and broken stone, bound together with asphalt or coal…
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