Kline v. Board of Commissioners

This was a proceeding by the board of commissioners of the county of Huntington to re-assess lands benefited by the construction of a free gravel road, known as “The Huntington and Zanesville Highway.”

Proceedings to improve this road were instituted in 1881, under the act of 1877, sections 5091, 5092 B. S. 1881, sections 6855, 6856 Burns 1894, sections 5091, 5092 Horner 1897. It appears that the original assessment upon the lands benefited amounted to $9,000; and the board of- commissioners, under the authority of the above statute, in order to raise money to meet the expenses of the…