Sample v. Carroll

— The appellees petitioned the board of commissioners for the establishment and construction of a public ditch. The appellants filed what counsel denominate a remonstrance in the commissioners’ court, but that court, holding their remonstrance or motion bad, decided against them, and they appealed to the circuit court. In the circuit court the appellants filed papers which their counsel designate as *497remonstrances, but which the appellees’ counsel contend were collateral motions. The theory of the appellees is that as the papers were collateral motions they are not in the record because not…