Case Name: The Town of Newburg, Appellee, vs. Alva R. Foreman et al. Appellants
Court: Illinois Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1924-12-16
Citations: 314 Ill. 615
Docket Number: No. 16377
Parties: The Town of Newburg, Appellee, vs. Alva R. Foreman et al. Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Reports
Volume: 314
Pages: 615–615

Head Matter:
(No. 16377.
Cause transferred.)
The Town of Newburg, Appellee, vs. Alva R. Foreman et al. Appellants.
Opinion filed December 16, 1924.
Freehold — a freehold is not involved in proceeding to assess damages for improving highway. A proceeding under section 133 of the Roads and Bridges act to assess damages for property taken and damaged in the construction of a ditch for the purpose of carrying off waters from a public road does not involve a freehold.
Appear from the Circuit Court of Pike county; the Hon. Harry Higbee, Judge, presiding.
Capps & Weaver, for appellants.
Wirriams & Wirriams, and Edwin Johnston, for appellee.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Thompson
delivered the opinion of the court:
This was a proceeding to assess damages to appellants, the owners of certain lands in the town of Newburg, in Pike county, for property taken and damaged in the construction of a ditch for the purpose of carrying off waters from a public road, the action being brought under section 133 of the Road and Bridge act. Such a proceeding does not involve a freehold, (Motsinger v. Chenoweth, 308 Ill. 31,) and there is no assignment of error raising a constitutional question or any other question that gives this court jurisdiction of this appeal.
The cause is therefore transferred to the Appellate Court for the Third District.
Cause transferred.