Aurora & Laughery Turnpike Co. v. Holthouse

The appellees, on the 21st of October, 1853, filed their complaint against the Aurora and Laughery Turnpike Company. This company was incorporated by an act of the legislature, approved February 15, 1848, with a view to the construction of a turnpike from the city of Aurora, in Dearborn county, to a certain point on Laughery creek, in Ripley county. On the 27th of May, 1851, the appellees recovered a judgment in the Dearborn Circuit Court, against said company, for 165 dollars, with costs, &c. This proceeding is founded on the 16th and 17th sections of an act approved Jwie 15,1852, which act…