Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — Road Supervisors Important Officers. [ARTICLE]

Road Supervisors Important Officers.

By a decision of the Indiana suppreme court rendered Friday the importance of the office of road supervisor is emphasized and the error so many farmers make in disregarding the elections for that obscure office is made manifest. The court holds that the road supervisor has unlimited power to command the property and persons of citizens in the line of his duties, aud he is not bound by the instructions of the township trustee nor ean the trustee withhold money necessary to be used. It says that a road supervisor may take wood, gravel, sand, stone aud earth from adjoining land for use in repairing a highway, and charge his township with the appraised value; that' he may require the men living in bis district to do the work neoes sary to repair a road, and that without the consent of his trustees the supervisor’s power to take materials and impress Jabor so far as is necessary is practically un limited. It also holds that the supervisor’s duty is as broad as his power and he can be compelled to do these things, even though his trustee may object. In the case referred to the trustee had forbidden the supervisor to do certain neces sary work, but that was held oot to excuse him from the performance fhr h s duty.