Case ID: ohio-st_40/html/0086-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wilkinson v. Culp.
    Error to the District Court of Jefferson County.
    
      Trainer & Go oh and W. P. Says for plaintiff in error.
    
      Mg Glauslin & Martin for defendant in error.
   By the Court.

In 1876 the commissioners of Jefferson County were attempting, upon petition of Robert Wilkinson, to appropriate certain land belonging to John Culp for a roadway, under an act “to authorize the making of roads and bridges in certain cases,” passed February 8, 1847, and an amendatory act passed March 8, 1850, 1 S. & C., 526 and 527. In the court below the defendant in error sought to restrain Wilkinson and the commissioners from proceeding in this attempt.

Seld: Said acts were in violation of section 19, article 1 of the constitution of the state, and were void.

Judgment of district court affirmed.