Laptad v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This is an appeal by the board of county commissioners of Douglas county from a judgment rendered in the district court of that county for damages done to real property belonging to appellee by the widening and deepening of a drainage ditch for the purpose of draining a county and state highway. One acre of the eighty-acre tract of the appellee was used in the widening of the ditch and in the placing of the dirt from the excavation under the provisions of R. S. 68-115. The verdict and. judgment was for $700 shown by the special answers of…