Potter v. Commissioners of Highways

In this case a petition to lay out a hew road, extending across the lands of the plaintiff in error, was presented to the defendant in error, and after granting the prayer of the petition, and failing to agree with the plaintiff in error as to the amount of his damages, filed a certificate with the justice of the peace and asked that a jury be impaneled to assess the damages of the plaintiff in error; the damages were assessed by the jury, from which assessment the plaintiff in error secured an appeal to the County Court of Gallatin county. The case was tried de novo in the County Court and…