Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1908 — Forty People Owned One Lot [ARTICLE]

Forty People Owned One Lot

The people of Lake Village scored up another big victory Saturday, when the Supreme Couit of Indiana affirmed the lower court in tbe gravel road case. This suit involved the right of certain persons to sign a petition as free holders, their rights having been acquired under a deed to a lot that was made to a number of residents as tenants in comm n. The Supreme Court holds that for highway purposes such signatures as free holders are valid. When the people of Lake Village decided to build a system of roads, a petition was circulated after a plan had keen devised that was considered fair to the whole township. Tbe pe ltion was generously signed, viewers were appointed, and an election held which carried, but waa opposed by Mrs. Conrad, and later carried to the courts. Judge Hanley held the proceedings regular, and decided that the roads should be built, but the Conrad forces were not satisf ed and appealed to the Supreme Court, wbich sustained the proceedings in every particular. The new gravel road will pass by tbe new depot.— Kentland Enterprise.