Board of Commissioners v. Mankey

Suit by appellee to enjoin appellants from cutting down the grade of an established free gravel road, and to set aside an appropriation of money made to pay for the work. The principal question presented by the pleading is whether the board of county commissioners, acting as free gravel road directors, may, in making repairs, substantially change the established grade of a free gravel road. Appellee owns lands along the road, and appellants, as turnpike directors, are threatening to cut down a certain bin in the road in front of appellee’s lands a depth of six feet below the top of the grade…