Reddington v. Hamilton

The board of commissioners of Decatur county ordered and adjudged that a certain road should be changed. An appeal was taken to the Circuit Court, which also made the same order, and gave judgment against the appellant (who ‘objected in both Courts against the change) for costs.

The Circuit Court tried the cause upon a transcript of the record of the proceedings of the board of commissioners.

J. H. Bradley, for the plaintiff.

This was erroneous. We have heretofore decided that a Circuit Court is to try an appeal from an order of the of county commissioners de novo, as a Court of original…