Thom v. County of Dodge

Ames, C.

This is a proceeding under chapter 89 of the Compthed Statutes to obtain a right of way for a drainage ditch across a tract of land belonging to the plaintiff in error. An appeal was taken to the district court from an assessment of damages by the county board. In the course of the trial three errors are alleged to have intervened, which the plaintiff in error seeks to have corrected by this court.

1. It was disclosed on the trial that two of the witnesses adverse to the plaintiff in error were petitioners for the construction of the ditch, and had signed the bond prescribed by section…