Shields v. Pyles
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Jackson. Circuit Court; David A. Kochenour, Special Judge. Petition by Jesse Pyles and others for the establishment of a drain. Prom a judgment confirming the assessments of the drainage commissioners, establishing the drain and appointing a construction commissioner, Ewing Shields and others appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMyers, J.
Appellee Pyles and fifteen other landowners filed on September 30, 1907, a petition in the Jackson Circuit Court for the drainage of certain lands and highways. Such proceedings Avere thereafter had without any objection *74interposed, that on November 25, 1908, a report of commissioners was filed, reporting the proposed work to be of public utility, to be practicable, and that it would improve the public health, and benefit highways and free gravel roads, and that the costs would be less than the benefits to the lands assessed. By that report additional lands to those named in the petition were…
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