Tygard v. Board of County Commissioners

This controversy originated as a proceeding for widening, deepening, and straightening a stream running through Licking and Fair-field counties, and therefore involved the interpretation and application of Ohio joint county ditch laws in Sections 6442 to 6545, inclusive, of the General Code. No question was made as to the proceedings prior to the making of assessments. Estimates of the amount to be assessed against each tract benefited by the improvement were made by the county surveyors, as provided by Sections 6455 and 6537, and in due course those assessments came before the joint session…