Barr v. Allen

This is an appeal from a proceeding in the Daviess Circuit Court for the establishment and construction of a levee along the West Fork of White River. The proceedings were instituted under Acts of 1907, chapter 223, as amended (§§ 27-801 to 27-815, Burns’ 1933, §§ 10210 to 10224; Baldwin’s 1934). After the report of the levee commissioners had been approved, but before a contract for construction had been let, the General Assembly enacted Acts of 1937, chapter 42 (§§27-823 to 27-828, Burns’ 1933 (Supp.), §§ 10224-1 to 10224-6, Baldwin’s Supp. 1937). Said last mentioned act provided,…