Smith's Case

Barnett, P. J.,

The petitioner, John C. Smith, is the owner of a tract of land, situate in Carroll Township, containing about ten acres. The western portion of the land is rectangular in shape, about 243 feet in width, and 769 feet in length from east to west. Its western boundary-line is in the centre of the old road leading from Carlisle to Bloomfield. Upon the western end of the rectangle, near to the road and facing it, stands the petitioner’s dwelling-house, and immediately in the rear of it his garage. About 150 feet east of the garage is a barn and chicken-house. The road was taken over…