Board of Commissioners v. Spitler

The case made by the pleadings is as follows:

Under an act entitled “ An act to authorize the formation of new counties,” &c., approved March 7,1857, certain citizens of Jasper county, residing within a certain district in th county, presented to the board of commissioners of said county a petition wherein they set forth the boundaries of the district in which they reside, and allege that such district ought to be formed into a new county, to be called the county of Newton; that the area embraced within the boundaries, was, as near a square as may be, and would, if formed into a new county,…