Grading Bledsoe Hill v. Bledsoe

This proceeding is brought to this court by appeal on the part of Henry Bledsoe, appellant, from a judgment rendered in the circuit court of Buchanan county, assessing damages for injury to appellant’s land abutting upon the public road sought to be graded by this proceeding. This proceeding is predicated upon an act of the General Assembly approved March 26, 1903 (Laws 1903, p. 148), to empower county courts to grade public roads and provide a method for paying damages caused by said grading. Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this act provide:

“Sec. 1. Any county court in this State, by an…