Dipert v. Bacon

Appellants and fifty other persons filed with the board of commissioners of Starke county a petition asking that two short stretches of highway in Oregon township, aggregating a little more than two miles in length, connecting in a “T” shape, should be “properly graded to furnish adequate drainage” and then “improved with gravel, with a road bed of not less than 8 feet wide and 8 inches in depth.” And with the petition they filed an affidavit of one of such petitioners stating that they were all freeholders and voters of said township. After proof of notice and posting, viewers were…