Gard v. Dolbeare

This is an appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court of Pike county awarding appellee $2,675 damages in a proceeding instituted for the vacation of a highway, in the Town of Pleasant Vale in said county. The cause was heard in the circuit court on appeal from a justice of the peace.

Appellee was the owner of about 148 acres of farm land in said town. The land was bounded on the west by a highway known as the West road, on the north by the road sought to be vacated and on the east by the drainage ditch of Kiser creek subdistrict of the Sny Island Levee Drainage district in which subdistrict…