Jackson v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners

This was an action on the bond of a firm of contractors to recover damages because of their failure to complete a free gravel road in Huntington county that was ordered constructed under the “three mile act”, as then in force (§7719 Bums 1908, Acts 1907 p. 68, §1). The greater part of the length to be improved was north of the Salamonie River, and was comparatively level, while the short distance south of the river was laid out to pass through a hill in a deep cut, that would require five times as much excavation as the longer distance at the north end. All of the highway, after being…