City of Lafayette v. Shultz

On the 30th of October, 1871, the common council of the city of Lafayette passed an ordinance to *98locate and open a street in that city, to be called Fourteenth street, by which it was proposed to appropriate real estate belonging to the appellee Catharine, the wife of Philip Shultz. On the 21st day of December, of the same year, the proper commissioners met and assessed damages to Mrs. Shultz, on account of the proposed appropriation of her property, in the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, and they assessed no benefits against her. On the same day, the commissioners filed with the…