Road Improvement District No. 1. v. McAlpin

Appellee instituted this suit, 'on the first day of February, 192'2, against appellants in the circuit court of Clark County to recover damages in the sum of $1,500 alleged to have been spent by him in the construction of the highway through the town of Gurdon. It is alleged that in January, 1920, the marshal of the town of Gurdon moved the fence back twenty-five feet on the side of a ten-acre tract of land owned by him in said town; that said town cut a levee near his land that caused it to overflow in rainy seasons; that in April or May, 1920, appellants appropriated a strip of land and…