Rykers Ridge Turnpike Co. v. Scott

The only question involved (and not heretofore decided by this court) is whether the act of March 11th, 1867, authorizing plank, macadamized and gravel road companies to procure assessments on lands to aid in the construction.of such roads, (Acts 1867, p. 167) is available to such companies organized after the passage of that act.

The first ■section of the act, upon the language of which the decision of the question hinges, provides, that “any organized * company, under and pursuant to the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana entitled, ‘an act authorizing the…