Hendricks v. Gilchrist

Appellants sought an injunction restraining the collection of a tax levied for the benefit of a gravel road. They were defeated below, and ask a reversal upon the ground that their motion for a new trial was erroneously denied.

One of the causes alleged for an injunction is, that the assessors did not view all of the lands lying within one and one-half miles of the line of the proposed road. The statute in force when the tax was assessed provides that the assessors shall view all the lands within one and one-half miles of such road, and make a list of the same. 3 Ind. Stat., p. 538, sec. 3.

The…