School Town v. Somerville
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Tipton Circuit Court; Leroy B. Nash, Judge. Action by Peter C. Somerville and another against the School Town of Windfall City and another. Prom a judgment for plaintiffs, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
In 1895 appellants jointly owned and since have owned a lot abutting on a public street of the civil town of Windfall City, which they have at all times used jointly for public school purposes. In 1896 the board of trustees of the civil town proceeded under the law, familiarly known as the Barrett Law (Acts 1889 p. 237, §4288 Burns 1901), to improve the abutting street with a brick paved roadway. *466This proceeding followed, regularly in all respects, the provisions of the statute and resulted in the completion of the improvement, and the assessment of the cost of it against the abutting…
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