In Re Appropriation for Highway Purposes

This is an appeal on questions of law by the Director of Highways of the state of Ohio in an appropriation action from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Hancock County sustaining a motion of the property owners, dismissing the resolution and finding of the director required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 5519.02, JRevised Code, and dismissing the appropriation action.

In its journal entry the court recited that no evidence had been adduced, and found that “the description of land contained in the resolution and finding * # * is vague and is not a metes and bounds…