Spidell v. Johnson

Out of a great mass of irrelevant matter the following material facts may lie extracted from a complaint to which a demurrer was sustained in the court below.

Certain proceedings were instituted before the board of commissioners of Ripley county, in the year 1884, for the construction of a free gravel road, which was to be known as the Versailles and Dillsboro Turnpike. The proceedings resulted in the making of assessments on the contiguous lands, as provided by law, and in the issuing of thirty coupon bonds of the denomination of $500 each upon which to raise money for the construction of the…