Johnson County Ex Rel. Vanhoose v. Boyd

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sims

Affirming.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment entered on a verdict fixing the damages at $600 in an action filed by Johnson County to condemn something less than one-half an acre of land as a right-of-way for the construction of a road.

The county assigns four errors for the reversal of the judgment: 1. Exceptions to the award of the commissioners were not filed in the county court by the defendants within the time prescribed by statute; 2. the burden of proof in the circuit court was improperly placed upon the county; 3. the jury should have been…