Legal Opinion
Knutson v. State Ex Rel. Seberger
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided April 7, 1959No. 29,647PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAchor, J.
This is an appeal from an action in mandate brought by a subdivider and his wife against the Town Board of Trustees of the town of Dyer, Indiana, to require the approval of a plat of a proposed subdivision of land within the town. The action was filed on October 2, 1956, after the Town Board had disapproved the plat as presented. The trial court ordered the Town Board to approve the plat. From that decree this appeal was taken.
It is appellants’ position that the approval of such plat was discretionary with the Town Board and therefore that order of mandate was contrary to law.
It is the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Flournoy v. City of JeffersonvilleIndiana Supreme Court · 1861
- State ex rel. Reynolds v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
- Board of Commissioners v. State ex rel. BrownIndiana Supreme Court · 1897
- State Ex Rel. Smitherman v. Davis, Etc.Indiana Supreme Court · 1958
- State ex rel. Roundtree v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1881
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3Cited by52 opinions
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- El Dorado at Santa Fe, Inc. v. Board of County CommissionersNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1976
- Smith v. City of MobileSupreme Court of Alabama · 1979
- Mishler v. County of ElkhartIndiana Supreme Court · 1989
- Tippecanoe County Area Plan Commission v. Sheffield Developers, Inc.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1979
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