Putnam v. Douglas County

By the Court, Prim, O. J. :

The appellant claimed three thousand dollars as damages for the opening of a county road through his premises.

The viewers appointed by the county court to assess the damages claimed by appellant reported that in their judgment the premises were of no less value with the road laid out through them than they were without it; and hence that appellant' was not entitled to any damage.

*329Whereupon the county court, having adopted the report of the viewers, ordered the road to be opened. From this order the appellant appealed to the circuit court, where the issue, as to how…