Carstens v. Keating

The question presented for consideration is whether the defendants-appellees, who are the Pottawattamie County supervisors, should have widened a public highway adjacent to the plaintiffs-appellants’ lands, under the provisions of the 1927 Code contained in Section 4562 and supplemental sections, rather than according to the method outlined in Section 4607 thereof and its associated sections. Section 4562 aforesaid-reads as follows:

“Any person desiring the establishment, vacation, or alteration of a road shall file in the auditor’s office of the proper coun-ty a petition * * * To the board of…