Legal Opinion

Board of Commissioners v. Cartter

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided July 15, 1883PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Error from Chase District Court. At the May Term, 1882, the district court vacated an order made by the Board of Commissioners, establishing a public road upon and across certain lands situate in Chase county, and owned by D. K. Cartter. This order the Board brings here. The facts appear in Commissioners of Chase Co. v. Cartter, 24 Kas. 511-515, and in the opinion, infra.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Horton, C. J.:

On July 2,1877, a petition was filed before the board of county commissioners of Chase county, for the location and establishment of a public highway in that county. July 3,1877, viewers were appointed to view the road prayed for; November 20,1877, they made their report; January 5, 1878, the county surveyor made his report, with a plat of the same. At the January meeting of the board for 1878 the reportof the viewers was read, and the matter was continued from time to time until the July meeting of the board for 1879, at which meeting an…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Comm'rs of Wabaunsee Co. v. MuhlenbackerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
  2. State v. FarrySupreme Court of Kansas · 1880
  3. Board of Commissioners v. CarterSupreme Court of Kansas · 1880

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Jackson v. BentleySupreme Court of Kansas · 1909
  2. Gehlenberg v. HartleySupreme Court of Kansas · 1917
  3. Coffman v. HallSupreme Court of Kansas · 1920
  4. Flagel v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1911
  5. Brown v. PaulSupreme Court of Kansas · 1917

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