Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — PULASKI COURT REVERSED [ARTICLE]

PULASKI COURT REVERSED

Held to Have Erred in Not Holding Ditch Remonstrance Good. Snnreme court. Wednesday reversed the Pulaski circuit court for ordering the construction of «a drainage ditch on the petition of Jane Hoch and others as against the remonstrance of Mary A. Boyles and others. It is shown in the. opinion that the ditch proceeding was begun in the commissioners’ court and that the remonstrance of Mary A. Boyles and others was filed in the auditor’s office in time, but board was in session it was not presented to the board until long after the time for filing remonstrances, that the 1 board struck it out of the record and the trial court on appeal to the circuit court also struck it from the files. The supreme court' says that the filing of the remonstrance in the auditor s. office under the present law was sufficient, and reverses the judgment of the circuit court, x