Case Name: Bettenbrock et al. v. Kirsch et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1916-06-30
Citations: 185 Ind. 716
Docket Number: No. 22,903
Parties: Bettenbrock et al. v. Kirsch et al.
Judges: Morris, J. — Dissents.
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 185
Pages: 716–717

Head Matter:
Bettenbrock et al. v. Kirsch et al.
[No. 22,903.
Filed June 30, 1916.
Rehearing denied November 24, 1916.]
From Jackson Circuit Court; John H. Edwards, Special Judge.
Proceedings for the improvement of a highway on the petition of John H. Kirsch and others in which John H. Bettenbrock and others appeared and answered. From the judgment rendered, the defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
Montgomery & Montgomery, for appellants.
E. P. Eisner and Kochenour & Prince, for appellees.

Opinion:
Cox, C. J.-
— Appellee Kirsch and more than 300 others, who were qualified to do so, by their petition started a proceeding under §62 . of the Highway Act of 1905 (Acts 1905 p. 550, §7711 Bums 1908), as amended in 1913, (Acts 1913p. 914, §7711a Bums 1914), for the pavement, with concrete, of an existing free gravel road less than three miles in length. Such proceedings were had below as to present in 'this appeal questions substantially identical with those presented and heretofore decided in the case of Bettenbrock v. Miller (No. 22,901), ante 600, 112 N. E. 771, and on the authority of the decision in thatcase the judgment in this is affirmed.
Morris, J. — Dissents.