Law v. Madison, Smyrna, & Graham Turnpike Co.

The appellants filed their complaint, averring that they are the owners of real estate within one and one-half miles of either side and of the terminus of the appellee’s road, the said appellee being a corporation, organized under the act of 1852, authorizing the construction of plank, macadamized, and gravel roads. 1 G. & H. 474. It is alleged that the appellee has procured the Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson county to make an assessment of the benefits to accrue from the construction of said road to the said real estate so situate, belonging to the appellants, and that the…