Hays v. Parrish

Parrish filed a petition, signed by forty-eight persons, before the board of commissioners of White county, asking for the laying out and establishing of a certain highway. The board appointed viewers, to view and report upon the proposed highway, and, upon the report being returned in favor of the public utility of the highway, it was ordered by the board that it be laid out and established.

Hays, the appellant herein, not having filed any remonstrance, or claimed any damages before the board, took an appeal from the order of the board to the circuit court. In the latter court, the cause was…