Wilson v. Board of County Commissioners

The county board upon petition ordered a road opened through appellant’s land. He appeared ’before the viewers and presented a claim for $1500 damages. The viewers allowed him damages in the sum of $250. Within ten days thereafter he appealed from the order establishing the road and from the action of the board in allowing him damages. In the district court he filed his motion to dismiss the entire proceeding, claiming that the board of county-commissioners had no jurisdiction in the premises. *799The court denied the motion and ruled that the appeal from the award of damages waived the question…