Hammer v. Polk County

On the 5th of January, 1887, Orlando Aider-man and others duly filed their petition in the County Court of Polk County for the location of a certain county road. Viewers were thereupon appointed, who caused said road to be surveyed and marked out, and reported in favor of the location and establishment thereof. Within the time allowed by law, and before the establishment of said road, the appellant, as administrator of the estate of Sarah L. Stipp, filed a petition for damages caused by the location of said proposed road through the lands of his intestate, and upon said petition the court…