Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — TILE GO TO LAND OWNER. [ARTICLE]

TILE GO TO LAND OWNER.

Higher Court Decides Against Contractor and Reverses White - Circuit Court. The appellate court Thursday held that when the county commissioners establish a tile drain through land and later order it replaced by larger tile, but make no provision regarding the disposition of the old tile, the owner of the land and not tile is the Owner of them, and when the contractor, hauls them away he is (liable to the owner of the land lor their value. The decision is made in reversing the White circuit court in the case of M ilda M. Carson, landowner, vs. Milton J. Hana wait, ditch contractor, and is the first decision ever, rendered in Indiana On subject. The tile in dispute are only worth $314, but the decision will control the future rights of possession of old tile in other reconstructed tile ditches.