Piper v. Connersville & Liberty Turnpike Road Co.

This was a proceeding before a justice of the peace, by the appellees, to procure an assessment of damages sustained by the appellants in consequence of the running of the road of the company through the land of the appellants. An assessment was made before the justice, from which the appellants in this Court appealed to the Circuit Court. The proceedings were had under the provisions of the “act authorizing the construction of plank, macadamized, and gravel roads.” 1 R. S. p. 394.

In the Circuit Court, the cause came on for hearing before the Court, whereupon the Court, by the consent of the…