Powers v. Johnson

Appellees filed a petition before the board of commissioners of Clinton county, asking for the location and establishment of a highway thirty-three feet wide. The notice of the petition stated that the petitioners would *299ask that the highway should be thirty-three feet wide. The board made an order that the viewers should mark and lay out the highway to the width of thirty feet. The precept to the viewers ordered them to view, mark and lay out the highway thirty feet wide, fifteen feet on each side of the given line. The viewers reported that they so viewed, marked and laid out the highway…