Lawson v. Viola Township

MORIARTY, C.

The respondent sued the appellant township, alleging that he was the owner of the northwest quarter of section 3 in said township, and that, in grading a road along the west side of said land, the township had taken from' said land a strip outside the legal' limits of the highway) thereby appropriating about 2% acres of respondent’s land and téaring down certain of his fences., The case was tried to1 the court, without a jury, and1 the. court made findings favorable to plaintiff’s contentions and entered judgment against the defendant township in the sum of $175. From such…