Morris v. City of Indianapolis
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Superior Court of Marion County (76,735); James M. Leathers, Judge. Proceedings by the City of Indianapolis to abolish, certain railroad grade crossings. Edward Morris and others remon-. strated against the assessment of damages by the board of public works of said city. From a judgment for said city and the railroad companies, the remonstrants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJordan, J.
This action arose under an act of the legislature approved and in force on March 3, 1905, and known as the Indianapolis track elevation law (Acts 1905 p. 144, §§8864-8872 Burns 1908). It is entitled “An Act to provide for the alteration of steam railroad grade crossings, and to secure the depression or elevation of steam railroad tracks where the same cross streets or highways in cities of more than one hundred thousand population according to the last preceding United States census, and authorizing the opening, change and vacation of streets and other highways and change of grades thereof in…
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