Yelton v. Addison

Black, C.

Upon a petition signed by the appellees, the board of commissioners of Henry county ordered that a certain road, described in the petition and alleged therein to have been used as a public highway for more than twenty years, be a road of record thirty feet in width and be kept in repair as other highways already established.

From this decision Hayden Yelton and Alexander Reynolds, who are the appellants here, took an appeal to the Henry Circuit court, by the filing of an affidavit and an appeal bond with the county auditor. In the circuit court, the parties having appeared by their…