Schlattweiler v. County of St. Clair

This was an appeal from the county court of St. Clair county to the circuit court, from an assessment of damages on a petition for the change and re-location of a public highway in that county.

Appellant is the owner of the land taken for the road, and he will be required to expend one hundred and forty dollars or more to erect the necessary fence, besides the burden of annual repairs thereof. The road is of no benefit to him, and takes about forty-four hundredths of an acre of his land, which the proof shows is worth one hundred dollars per acre.

The jury in the circuit court allowed appellant…