Schmied v. Keeney

— William J. Keeney and fourteen other citizens and freeholders of Switzerland county filed their petition before the board of commissioners of that county, praying for certain changes in one of the highways of the county. Viewers were appointed to examine and report upon the public utility of the proposed changes, who reported in favor of their public utility.

Thereupon the appellant, Charles Schmied, one of the persons through whose lands the proposed new and relocated highway was to run, remonstrated against the injury which was about to be inflicted upon him, and asked that reviewérs *311might…