Mitchell v. City of Peru
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Miami Circuit Court; J. T. Cox, Judge. Action by Jolm Mitchell against the City of Deru and others for an injunction. From a decree. denying the injunction, the plaintiff appeals. Transferred from the Appellate Court under §1337u Burns 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtITadley, J.
Fifth, an east and west street in the city of Peru, was, fifty years ago, laid out and opened seventy feet wide from property line to property line, and the sidewalks and grades established, the walks being ten feet wide from property line to curb, and the gutters four feet, with bottom at two feet from curb line. In 1895, in response to a petition of citizens, the city council adopted a resolution authorizing property owners on all streets from seventy to one hundred feet in width, who might desire to do so, to widen the sidewalk by setting out the curb to the center of the gutter. The…
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- State ex rel. Fry v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1890
- State ex rel. Blanton v. EmmonsIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
- Kelley v. City of MarionIndiana Supreme Court · 1903
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