Wilcoxon v. City of Bluffton

Dissenting Opinion.

Baker, J.

I am constrained to dissent from the decision. Particularly am I unable to yield my assent to the processes by which the result is reached. Irrespective of what may be presented as to the logicalness of the opinion of the majority from the premises taken, I can not but believe that, if other facts that lie at the root of the matter are added to the view, and if the facts that do enter into the determination of the majority are more thoroughly circumspected, a different conclusion is inevitable.

The statute prescribing that “each civil township and each incorporated…