Overshiner v. Jones

In this action, the appellee sued the .appellant, in a complaint of but one paragraph, wherein he alleged, in substance, that on the 23d day of June, 1875, at a regular meeting of the board of trustees of the town of Elwood, in Madison county, Indiana, a petition, signed by a majority in number of the resident owners of lots and parcels of land bordering on that part of Main street to be improved, was pi’esented to said board of trustees, asking for the improvement of Main street, from the place where Duck Creek crosses said street to the east end of the street, being more than one square in…