Thompson v. Board of Com'rs

On July 30, 1946, plaintiff, Marguriete Thompson, filed in the office of the county clerk of Ottawa county a claim for $1,165 damages for the appropriation for road purposes of a strip of land adjacent to a county highway running through her property. The claim was disallowed, and from such action she appealed to the district court of Ottawa county. The cause was tried to the district court without a jury, and the trial court rendered judgment against the plaintiff, holding that the contract upon which the claim was based was illegal, void and ■ unenforceable; violative of the statutes and…