Freck v. Christian

Petition to change the location of a highway.

Christian and others were the petitioners. Freck remonstrated. The board of commissioners granted the change. Freck appealed to the circuit court. The cause was there tried by a jury, who found in favor of the change. The court ordered the change made. Freck appealed to the Supreme Court.

A bill of exceptions gives the history of the trial in the circuit court.

The only evidence given on the trial was the papers in *321the cause before the commissioners, accompanied by parol proof of notice of the petition for the change. To the giving of these papers,…