City of Valparaiso v. Spaeth
Indiana Supreme Court
Erom Porter‘Superior Court; A. O. Gapron, Special Judge. Action, by Wilhelmina Spaeth against the City of Valparaiso. From a' judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Transferred from Appellate Court - under §133lu Burns 1901, Acts 1901, p. 590.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
—Action for damages for negligently causing the overflow of the plaintiff’s lot.
Proceeding under the act of 1899 (Acts 1899, p. 164, now repealed, the provisions here involved being in substance reenacted in Acts 1901, p. 449, §§1, 2, §§6899, 6900 Burns 1901) fifty freehold voters of Center township, Porter county, in which township the city of Valparaiso, of 6,000 inhabitants, is located, on April 24, 1899, filed with the board of county commissioners their petition for the improvement, by grading and graveling, of a certain highway in said township which extended into the corporate limits…
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